Re: [Bug-tar] Tar symlinks questions

[Paul Eggert]

yamu wasp <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) Are the symlinks and/or other bugs fixed?

Sorry, it's not clear from your message what bugs you're talking
about.  Perhaps you could provide a test case illustrating the
problem?  In particular, you might show how tar test version 1.15.90
behaves on the test case.  See
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.15.90.tar.gz>.

> 2) Also, is there a way to use tar to only overwrite
> symlinks with other symlinks (not directories)?

Not currently, no.

I'm not sure such a feature would always do what you want.  I suspect
that sometimes you would want to follow symlinks, sometimes not --
even in the same tar image.  If so, you'll need a feature that is more
carefully thought out than this.