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tar 1.33+ incompatibility w/ Linux 2.6.32
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Luke Dashjr |
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tar 1.33+ incompatibility w/ Linux 2.6.32 |
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:55:06 +0000 |
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I have an old system that cannot be upgraded beyond Linux 2.6.32, and have
discovered tar 1.33 and 1.34 fail to extract symlinks correctly.
The error "Cannot change mode to rwxrwxrwx: Too many levels of symbolic links"
is shown instead.
Downgrading (and rebuilding) 1.32 restores functionality.
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