Unpacking software fails to open RAR file on linux

[Womble]

When unzipping the linux release file (1.7.30) each file is inflated until the entire hard drive is consumed

Seen using Ubuntu (gnome) 20.04 with the current release.

[bcssov]

Have you tried using another archiver to unpack the release? There really is nothing out of the ordinary in the rar itself

[Womble]

just tried Downloading a separate CLI package from unpacking rar files (unrar-free) and it fails with the following error (though at least doesnt start filling the hard drive.)

$ unrar linux-x64.rar

unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers

Extracting from /media/7a65f7a6-09a3-45a9-b53b-3f166fe5d452/Downloads/linux-x64.rar

unknown archive type, only plain RAR 2.0 supported(normal and solid archives), SFX and Volumes are NOT supported!
All OK

[bcssov]

Unfortunately it's your archive software filling the disk not Irony. I can unpack and open it just fine with winRAR on windows though.

[Womble]

Well yes obviously, but a well formatted rar file should not do this, none have before.

[bcssov]

Well the rar was made using WinRAR and it is opened just fine on windows using multiple software.

[bcssov]

Could it be possibly confused with the compression level?

[Womble]

Hmm, with further testing it does appear that unrar-free seems to be the issue. Trying another unrar program seems to work fine, I've never seen this happen before with a rar file, are you using any unusual options in the creation of it?

[bcssov]

Not to my knowledge, autodeploy packaging script:
rar a -ep1 -m5 -r linux-x64.rar linux-x64

-ep1: https://documentation.help/WinRAR/HELPSwEP1.htm
-m5 compression level (being the highest)

[Womble]

Very strange, I'm at a loss to why it fails in various ways with different rar backends then. But that's not really anything you can do much about.

If you want to avoid this issue entirely it would be easier to package the Linux version as a .tar.gz file.

[bcssov]

Easier yes; but I don't have too much spare time to find proper tools for windows to pack a tar.gz and edit my deployment procedures. I will switch to zip however for Linux.