Itch application breaks symbolic links in tar.bz2 packages

[fractilegames]

I tested if my game (http://fractilegames.itch.io/lockdown-protocol) works in Itch application on Linux. It did not:

[Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:49:45 GMT] [tasks/launch] launching '/home/mikko/.config/itch/users/60846/apps/1Ek9fCQjfFi24HDt/lockdownprotocol-1.4.1-linux64/lockdownprotocol' on 'linux' with args ''
[Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:49:45 GMT] [tasks/launch] sh "/home/mikko/.config/itch/users/60846/apps/1Ek9fCQjfFi24HDt/lockdownprotocol-1.4.1-linux64/lockdownprotocol"
[Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:49:45 GMT] [tasks/launch] Working directory: /home/mikko/.config/itch/users/60846/apps/1Ek9fCQjfFi24HDt/lockdownprotocol-1.4.1-linux64
[Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:49:45 GMT] [tasks/launch] stderr: Unable to open library: lib/libopenal.so.1: file too short

The lib -directory contains symbolic links that were somehow converted into regular files during installation. The game works well if I manually extract the tar.bz2 package contents to .config/itch/users/60846/apps/1Ek9fCQjfFi24HDt -directory.

[fasterthanlime]

So it turns out it's a 7-zip bug. I'm looking into different options

[fasterthanlime]

I don't feel like relying on having a 'tar' utility installed system-wide (ie. that would exclude windows and we've had .tar archive on Windows games before - or we would have to support both codepaths (extract .tar files using 7-zip, or with tar if present)), so the best bet currently seems to add tar extracting to butler.

https://github.com/itchio/butler

[fasterthanlime]

Fix will be included in version 0.12.4

[fasterthanlime]

(Next issue for you will be that the app picks up install.sh before the game itself, so it quits immediately. An easy fix would simply be to move install.sh into a scripts directory and to mention that to the human user in a README.txt file)

[fractilegames]

Thanks for the heads up. I could do that or just remove the script completely.

[fasterthanlime]

or just remove the script completely.

Sure, that works too :) 0.12.4 is out btw, can you confirm that if you re-install the game with it, you now see symbolic links on your system?

[fractilegames]

Yes, the symbolic links are preserved now!

[fasterthanlime]

Awesome, thanks for reporting back! 🌟