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I found a bug with how the arfile.py works when parsing ar files.
Basically, the code assumed whitespace delimited when it should have
been fixed sized fields.



diff -wubr ipkg-utils.old/arfile.py ipkg-utils/arfile.py
--- ipkg-utils.old/arfile.py	2009-03-13 12:45:25.937148714 -0400
+++ ipkg-utils/arfile.py	2009-03-13 12:44:59.680250619 -0400
@@ -74,7 +74,14 @@
             if l == "\n":
                 l = self.f.readline()
                 if not l: break
-            descriptor = l.split()
+            descriptor = [ l[0:15].strip() # filename 
+                                , l[16:27].strip() # timestamp
+                                , l[28:33].strip() # owner ID
+                                , l[34:39].strip() # gid
+                                , l[40:47].strip() # mode
+                                , l[48:57].strip() # size in bytes
+                                , l[58:59].strip() # file magic
+            ]
 #            print descriptor
             size = int(descriptor[5])
             memberName = descriptor[0][:-1]