[Bug-tar] Tar is destroying existing symbolic links - or maybe I'm ignorant with the gnu-tar

[KAEFFERBITZ, Thomas]

Hello Together,

I think the following is a bug, but maybe I just can't handle it correctly.

The situation before invoking tar showed those directories on the machine

$ ls -ld bin*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 kaefferb vvv            16 Dec 28 12:58 bin -> /v3/v3i17/bin-80
drwxrwxr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         11816 Oct  5 12:17 bin-72
drwxrwxr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         14296 Dec 28 11:10 bin-75
drwxr-xr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         14504 Dec 28 11:50 bin-80

We had been here

$ pwd
/v3/v3i17

Now I took the tar-extract  from the archive

$ tar xvzf LATEST.tgz 'bin'
bin/
bin/XGPIDSYU.dll_WINNT_ORA7 ....

This resulted in a new situation

$ ls -ld bin*
drwxrwxr-x    2 kaefferb vvv           928 Dec 28 12:21 bin
drwxrwxr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         11816 Oct  5 12:17 bin-72
drwxrwxr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         14296 Dec 28 11:10 bin-75
drwxr-xr-x    2 kaefferb vvv         14504 Dec 28 11:50 bin-80

the symbolic link was replaced by the directory from the tar-archive; there is enough work-araound, but a little inconvenient in a frequently changing environment.

The option '-h' didn't work, as expected.

Thanks, greetings and a happy 2007 for You all,
 
Thomas Käfferbitz * Softwareentwickler * V3.Investmentdepot * Solmsstr. 2 - 22, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
Tel +49 2683 984-449 *  <mailto:address@hidden> * www.sungard.de/v3>

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