find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
and check that no link begins with /home (or what ever absolute path).
You can run this command on /usr to see some examples:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr$ find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-01-17 20:42 ./X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 ->
libXt.so.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-01-17 20:42 ./X11R6/lib/X11/xserver ->
/etc/X11/xserver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-01-17 20:42 ./X11R6/lib/X11/xkb ->
/etc/X11/xkb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-01-17 20:42 ./X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
-> /etc/X11/app-defaults
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-01-17 20:41 ./X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt ->
/etc/X11/rgb.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2004-10-21 00:12
/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme ->
/etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-01-17 20:43 ./X11R6/lib/X11/rstart ->
/etc/X11/rstart
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2006-02-18 12:04
/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/a010013l.pfb ->
./../../../../share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010013l.pfb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2006-02-18 12:04
/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/a010015l.pfb ->
./../../../../share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/a010015l.pfb
Ori Idan wrote:
> I have a source tree which some of the files are actually symbolic links
> to other files in the same tree.
>
> I compress the tree using tar cjf file.tar.bz2 dir
>
> When I extract the files to the same machine everything works fine.
>
> When I extract the files to another machine with same directory
> strucuture (the directories before the source tree) everything works
> fine but extracting it on another machine with different path it seems
> the symbolic links are not created.
>
>
> For example:
>
> On my machine the source tree is at: /home/ori/stree
>
> On the other machine the source tree is at /home/user1/stree
>
>
> If on the other machine I would extract it to /home/ori, everything
> works fine.
>
>
> It seems as if tar works with absolute path names for the symbolic links.
>
>
> Anyone knows how to tell it to work with relational names?
>
>
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