On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:33:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > yamu wasp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
