tar-1.26 not unpacking archives with symlinks?

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 09:40:19 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2012 17:40:38 Natanael Copa wrote:
>> I have seen this too and it only happens when the symlink is extracted
>> before the file it points to.
>>
>> To reproduce:
>>   touch myfile
>>   ln -s myfile mylink
>>   tar -cf testcase1.tar mylink myfile
>
> i vaguely recall seeing this before and the issue came down to tar not
> detecting the right features.

sounds plausible.

>  might want to compare the config.log output
> between glibc and uclibc to see how they differ.

I don't have an glibc box handy available. Attached is the config.log
when building with uclibc on 84_64.

> -mike

-- 
Natanael Copa
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