Re: [Bug-tar] Tar symlinks questions

[yamu wasp]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:33:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert
wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

The question was does tar still overwrite symlinks?

But tar didn't have such a bug AFAIK. The bug resides
in slackware's
installpkg script it uses the tar -xzlUpvf which as im
sure you all know
the -U option makes tar "remove each file prior to
extracting over it".

This feature didn't work in Tar 1.13 so slackware
still uses it thinking it
is the only version that doen't "clobber symlinks".

So in short So the answer is: No.


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