>> ... Without the trailing "/." GNU tar (I
>> assume that's what you're using) will only back up the symlink itself ...
>
>You sure?  ...

Never :-).

>Remember that we do
>
>  tar -C /some/where/in/unix/land -cf - .

Ah, yes.  I did remember that, and even looked at the code to see if
we added a "/." ourself, but it didn't click that just the use of the
option would solve the symlink issue.

Never mind.  :-)

>Alexandre Oliva

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