Hi, maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a directory in it's place:
# ls -l [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 7 Oct 25 01:44 linux -> v2.4.13 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 23111925 Oct 25 01:28 linux-2.4.13.tar.bz2 drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Oct 25 01:34 v2.4.13 [...] # tar --bzip2 -xf linux-2.4.13.tar.bz2 # ls -l [...] drwxr-xr-x 14 1046 gdm 4096 Oct 24 08:21 linux -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 23111925 Oct 25 01:28 linux-2.4.13.tar.bz2 drwxr-sr-x 2 root src 4096 Oct 25 01:34 v2.4.13 [...] Is that how it should behave??? regards Alex PS: Please cc me directly, I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user.
