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rar support: move out of cros-disks

Project Member Reported by vapier@chromium.org, Mar 31 2017

Issue description

once  issue 707311  is resolved, the only archive format we'd still be supporting in cros-disks (and via avfs) is RAR.  i thought the bundled extension was going to take this on, but it looks like that's being dropped (especially with the talk of moving to a component extension and using minizip instead of libarchive).

what is the status of rar support ?  def not moving to the unpacker extension ?  what about as a product feature ?  i can't find mention of it on the CrOS help site.

i.e. can we punt RAR from the system and require people to use something like WGU ?
 

Comment 1 by mtomasz@google.com, Apr 1 2017

We really wanted to get rid of AVFS, but libarchive which we used in the FSP extension doesn't support rar files well. IF WGU supports rar, then I think it's a very limited support. According to our experiments plenty of rar archives did not open with libarchive, at least few years ago. We were waiting for libarchive to fix rar support, but it didn't happen.

Comment 2 by sashab@chromium.org, Feb 24 2018

Labels: CrOS-FilesApp-Zip

Comment 3 by sashab@chromium.org, Feb 28 2018

Labels: -CrOS-FilesApp-Zip CrOSFilesFeature-Zip
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