Re: [Bug-tar] hard links and --transform

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:27:48PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > This works, but not for hardlinked member names. Consider the following:
> > 
> > hrwxr-xr-x root/root        0 2008-10-13 05:33 sbin/fsck.ext2 link to 
> > tmp/tmp.cZSZPbrxok/sbin/fsck.ext4
> 
> You may apply transformation rules to hardlink targets, by specifying
> the `h' flag:
> 
>   tar cvzf "$TARFILE" --transform "s,${basedir#/}/,,h" $basedir
> 
> This requires tar 1.21 or later.  See

Aha.

ii  tar            1.20-1         GNU version of the tar archiving utility

Guess I'll need to wait for that, then.

Thanks.

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