Re: [Bug-tar] dereferencing broken since 1.24?

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/04/11 15:28, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Issuing these commands with 1.23:
> 
> $ touch foo
> $ tar czfh foo.tar.gz foo bar
> $ tar tzvf foo.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- larman/larman     0 2011-01-04 15:06 foo
> -rw-r--r-- larman/larman     0 2011-01-04 15:06 bar
> 
> That is as expected

No doubt you meant that foo should be a symbolic link to tar?
(Your example doesn't say.)

But in that case, I don't see why you'd expect the behavior
described above.  If symlinks are being followed, 'tar' should
behave the same with 'ln foo bar' as it does with 'ln -s foo bar',
which is like this:

$ touch foo
$ ln foo bar
$ tar czfh foo.tar.gz foo bar
$ tar tzvf foo.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2011-01-05 09:43 foo
hrw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2011-01-05 09:43 bar link to foo

This behavior is the same for both 1.22 and 1.25 (I just checked).
tar 1.22 mishandles it if "ln -s" is used, but 1.25 gets it right.


On 01/05/11 08:09, gene heskett wrote:
> Test cases have been submitted, but no fix progress has been 
> noted, and this bug has been out of the refrigerator long enough to develop 
> an odor in this amanda users camp.

I assume we're talking about a bug in Amanda here?
I don't recall test cases being submitted to bug-tar.

Where is the Amanda bug report?