[Thincrust-devel] issues with zip packaging for appliances

[David Huff]

Perry Myers wrote:
> I've been playing with the -p zip option to appliance-creator and ran 
> into an issue that I'm not sure how we can solve...
> 
  > When appliance-creator attempts to add this disk image to the zip
> archive it fails because the logical size of the file is > 4GB which is 
> the limitation of an individual file in a zip archive.  You can pass the 
> allowZip64=True parameter to Zip in python to allow the zip64 extensions 
> to remove this limitation, 


We added allowZip64=True to appliance creator a while back b/c we were 
hitting size limitations [1] and this is in the latest version of 
appliance-tools on f9:  appliance-tools-002.4

> but then the zip file can no longer be 
> extracted using the standard unzip command line tools (also not sure if 
> native Windows zip can handle this)

I am not sure if a window client can read this or not? Should this be 
the default option for zip?

[1] 
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=act.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d7e9e1b83ea99d9129c11269dce2c2cffb3a5d5

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