> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:06:51 +0200
> From: Thanos Baloukas <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question
>
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> the --keep-directory-symlink seems to be the suitable option.
> By tar manual:
>
> ???--keep-directory-symlink???
> This option changes the behavior of tar when it encounters a symlink
> with the same name as the directory that it is about to extract. By
> default, in this case tar would first remove the symlink and then
> proceed extracting the directory.
>
> The ???--keep-directory-symlink??? option disables this behavior and
> instructs tar to follow symlinks to directories when extracting from the
> archive.
>
> It is mainly intended to provide compatibility with the Slackware
> installation scripts.
>
- just to perhaps clarify (e.g. anyone reading 'cold'), that's of course
new in the relatively-recent 1.27.x release (I'd 'omitted to remember' that
1.27.x had been released and e.g. added to lfs-svn): it basically restores
some functionality 'lost' when going from 1.13.x to 1.14.x back at the
Eggert->Poznyakoff maint-transition back in 2001-2004. And of course the
option has much wider usefulness than just for slack-installer. You might
find the also-new '--{keep,skip}-old-files' options to be of use too, at
least within the context of the goals & route that you have. (Tho' of course
as they're new, be sure to have tested fully before putting into any
production (as will happen for slack-installer I'd expect)).
rgds,
akh
>
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> Thanos
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