ZIP package in Rocky 9 without UNICODE_SUPPORT

Rocky Linux General
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Hi, Rocky 9 has zip package zip-3.0-33.el9 is compiled without UNICODE_SUPPORT. Special characters are not correctly displayed by Windows explorer with native zip archive browser.

This problem occured in Rocky 9. Rocky 8 has zip package compiled with UNICODE_SUPPORT.

Output in Rocky 9: zip --version
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.

Zip special compilation options:
USE_EF_UT_TIME (store Universal Time)
SYMLINK_SUPPORT (symbolic links supported)
STORE_UNIX_UIDs_GIDs (store UID/GID sizes/values using new extra field)
UIDGID_16BIT (old Unix 16-bit UID/GID extra field also used)
[encryption, version 2.91 of 05 Jan 2007] (modified for Zip 3)

Output in Rocky 8: zip --version
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.

Zip special compilation options:
USE_EF_UT_TIME (store Universal Time)
BZIP2_SUPPORT (bzip2 library version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010)
bzip2 code and library copyright (c) Julian R Seward
(See the bzip2 license for terms of use)
SYMLINK_SUPPORT (symbolic links supported)
LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (can read and write large files on file system)
ZIP64_SUPPORT (use Zip64 to store large files in archives)
UNICODE_SUPPORT (store and read UTF-8 Unicode paths)
STORE_UNIX_UIDs_GIDs (store UID/GID sizes/values using new extra field)
UIDGID_NOT_16BIT (old Unix 16-bit UID/GID extra field not used)
[encryption, version 2.91 of 05 Jan 2007] (modified for Zip 3)

Version of zip is almost the same, there are some compile options different.

2

The same goes for the package from RHEL 9, so it the problem has been inherited from there. I haven’t checked Fedora.

I’ll go on and file a bug in Red Hat’s bugzilla. Maybe it’ll get fixed in RHEL 10… :-/

3

Filed here: 2162688 – zip: Missing large file, zip64, Unicode and bzip2 support (regression from RHEL 7/8)

4

A fixed version has been in CentOS 9 Stream for a while, and is included in RHEL 9.2, so should make Rocky 9.2 eventually. See RHBA-2023:2583 for details.