I start emacs with emacs -Q. Then I open two remote files (foo.tgz and
foo.zip). I modify a file within both of them. I save them. foo.tgz gets
upated correctly and foo.zip gets corrupted (same happens with jar files, btw,
since they are zipped).
[ For reproducing the issue, you don't need the foo.tgz file, I just mention that
to point that other compressed formats work fine for me ].
The remote files are in a system available via SSH, so that is what tramp uses.
The funny thing is that when I modify the zip file locally, it works
fine and emacs does not remind me I need to save the zip file (emacs
reminds me to do it with the tgz file), but remotely emacs reminds me to
save the zip file. When I do, it gets corrupted.
I was not sure if the problem lies within tramp or in the emacs code that deals
with zip files, so I filed a bug report to tramp. Here is their answer:
I would say it is due to arc-mode.el. I've checked the code shortly; it uses
`call-process' internally, which is not prepared for remote files. Replacing
all such calls by `process-file' was not reasonable, at least handling of
temporary files must be improved as well.
I recommend to file a bug report towards Emacs, by "M-x report-emacs-bug".
(I would appreciate very much a way to get a patch for fixing this, if/when
available)
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