• Bug#255067: Broken Symlink Storage

    From David Keegan@1:229/2 to All on Sat Aug 21 01:30:15 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Hi,

    Further to my previous message, the reason for the problem may have
    been that I interrupted the tar process after the trace indicated that
    tar had written the contents of the directories I had specified for
    extraction as command line arguments.

    This may be fatal to successfully restoring symlinks as tar seems to
    defer creation of some symlinks, creating zero length ordinary files
    when first extracting them from the archive and then replacing the
    files by symlinks later on.

    It is tempting interrupt tar if it has already apparently written the
    files one requires to extract and appears to be pointlessly reading
    through the remainder of the archive.

    Regards,
    David.
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    [David Keegan [email protected] 353 1 2988743]
    [56 Roebuck Downs Dublin 14 IRELAND]



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