Package: tar
Version: 1.11.11-1
It seems the newest version of 'tar' sets (during extract) the uid/gid and
the mtime of the file a symlink points to instead of the symlink itself.
Here is a source directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bcwhite verisim 5731 Jul 21 16:02 database-gdbm.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 bcwhite verisim 1114 Jul 7 00:27 database-gdbm.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bcwhite verisim 16 Jul 14 13:56 database.cc ->
database-gdbm.cc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bcwhite verisim 15 Jul 14 13:56 database.h ->
database-gdbm.h
Here is output of 'tar' during extract:
ferret/database-gdbm.h
ferret/database.cc
tar: ferret/database.cc: Could not change access and modification times: No
such file or directory
tar: ferret/database.cc: Cannot change mode to 0755: No such file or directory
ferret/database.h
ferret/database-gdbm.cc
The extracted directory has:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bcwhite verisim 5731 Jul 21 16:02 database-gdbm.cc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bcwhite verisim 1114 Jul 14 13:56 database-gdbm.h*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bcwhite verisim 16 Aug 19 17:45 database.cc ->
database-gdbm.cc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bcwhite verisim 15 Aug 19 17:45 database.h ->
database-gdbm.h*
(note the permissions of "database-gdbm.h")
Brian
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