[Bug-tar] Symlink Feature Request

[David Stern]

There have been times when I would have liked to send out an archive to users that contains a symlink to a file that isn’t located in the archive.  This symlink, once copied to the system, will point to an actual file.  My feature request is that there is a command-line option to forget about broken symlinks in the archive and to unpack them anyway.  This would be a simple addition, and would probably be helpful in a wide variety of situations.

 

Thanks,

            David Stern