On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:11:04 +0200, 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.
As others have pointed out, the problem is that you have absolute symbolic links (i.e. starting with /). Use the `symlinks' utility (check it man page) to convert (and shorten) the symlinks on your directory before tarring it. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= 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]
