ordinary files in rpm file not displayed/accessible

[Andrew Borodin]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:03:06 -0400 Felix Miata via mc wrote:
> On "entry" to 132k
> http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-68.0.1-2.1.x86_64.rpm
> or
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_64/MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-68.0.1-1.13.x86_64.rpm
> (downloaded with zypper)
> all directories are displayed as empty, not expected behavior.

Why do you think so?

$ rpm2cpio MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-68.0.1-1.13.x86_64.rpm | cpio -t
./usr/lib64/firefox
1 block

Archive is correct. Single empty directory is in it.

The 132k is filled by huge packet changelog:

$ rpm -qp --changelog MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-68.0.1-1.13.x86_64.rpm | wc -c
129549

> Is there a compression scheme missing from mc packaging that causes this?
> Does mc.ext need some sort of customization? Something else? Bug report?

MC is powerless to do anything here.

-- 
Andrew