Hi all, (please CC me as I am not subscribed)
I have the following tar archive being constructed like this: tar -C .. -cf ../rootfs-$(DOTVERSION).tar rootfs tar -C .. -rf ../rootfs-$(DOTVERSION).tar -h rootfs/misc/release_builds This done so as to de-reference just that file, there are other symbolic links under rootfs/ that I do not want to de-reference, just this particular one. Now, while extracting this tar archive on two different systems I noticed different behaviors: - tar 1.23 extracts this just fine and rootfs/misc/release_builds ends-up being a regular file - tar 1.27 on the other extracts the file, but still has rootfs/misc/release_builds as a symbolic link Is this a known bug or feature, and if so, is there a known workaround to proceed with extracting the second part of the tar file which contains the de-referenced copy? Assuming that the bug is that there are two files with different file types here. Thank you! -- Florian
