Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
What are the links? Do the link targets - as saved by tar - contain the full path (/home/ori/...)? If they do that would explain your problem. By default, tar will recreate symlinks, unless you use --dereference (which is a good idea if you intend to recreate on a filesystem that does not support symlinks). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
