Re: [Bug-tar] I don't know why tar-1.27 cannot back up the contents of a softlink

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hi,

On Wednesday 23 of July 2014 04:08:13 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Can someone tell me why? Not backing up the contents of a softlink, makes
> an incomplete, often worthless backup.

based on $Subject, it seems that this is 1.27 only, 1.27.1 is OK?  Then
'git log release_1_27..release_1_27_1' could help to find what commit
fixes this issue.

> Just last week I had occasion to do a recover after a failed hard drive,
> and the most important editing program I use, gedit now refuses to run
> over an ssh -Y link.  Something did not get recreated in the
> /home/gene/.gconf tree.

If there was a temporary bug, it would be nice to catch this issue and cover
it by test-case.  Don't you have a more indices?  Format, parameters, etc.
With usual tar defaults & the git log above I don't see pointers yet.

Pavel