exe- I did this exactly, on Karmic just now. I'm still not reproducing the bug:
kirkl...@x200:~$ cd /tmp/ kirkl...@x200:/tmp$ hg init testrepo kirkl...@x200:/tmp$ cd ./testrepo kirkl...@x200:/tmp/testrepo$ echo "content" > testfile kirkl...@x200:/tmp/testrepo$ ln -s testfile ./.testlink kirkl...@x200:/tmp/testrepo$ hg add adding .testlink adding testfile kirkl...@x200:/tmp/testrepo$ hg ci -m "commit" No username found, using 'kirkl...@x200' instead kirkl...@x200:/tmp/testrepo$ cd ~ kirkl...@x200:~$ hg clone ssh://localhost//tmp/testrepo clonedrepo requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files updating working directory 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved kirkl...@x200:~$ tar -cf - ./clonedrepo | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/ -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 8 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/testfile lrwxrwxrwx kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.testlink -> testfile drwxr-xr-x kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/ -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 7 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/undo.branch -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 8 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/branch -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 91 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/dirstate -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 48 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/hgrc -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 57 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/00changelog.i -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 23 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/requires drwxr-xr-x kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/ -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 68 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/undo -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 155 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/00manifest.i -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 157 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/00changelog.i -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 33 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/fncache drwxr-xr-x kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/data/ -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 73 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/data/.testlink.i -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 73 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/store/data/testfile.i -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 92 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/branchheads.cache -rw-r--r-- kirkland/kirkland 0 2009-10-14 15:02 ./clonedrepo/.hg/undo.dirstate -- tar cant archive symlinks on ecryptfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441237 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils Hello! I've got a very strange problem. Symlinks doesn't want to be archived: u...@ubuntu:~$ ls -la ./weird/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 0 2009-10-03 12:33 . drwxr-xr-x 35 user user 8192 2009-10-03 12:33 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 0 2009-10-03 11:43 .bashrc -> ./.profile -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 697 2009-10-03 11:43 .profile u...@ubuntu:~$ tar -cf - ./weird/ | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x user/user 0 2009-10-03 12:33 ./weird/ lrwxrwxrwx user/user 0 2009-10-03 11:43 ./weird/.bashrc -> .\251t\b \251t\b<W -rw-r--r-- user/user 697 2009-10-03 11:43 ./weird/.profile I don't know what ".\251t\b \251t\b<W" mean. Steps to reproduce(: cd /tmp hg init testrepo cd ./testrepo echo "content" > testfile ln -s testfile ./.testlink hg add hg ci -m "commit" cd ~ hg clone ssh://localhost//tmp/testrepo clonedrepo tar -cf - ./clonedrepo | tar -tvf - mount: /home/user/.Private on /home/user type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=6838319cfdb74235,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=6f10y2de3b0e0f6c,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 3 12:18:10 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: tar 1.22-1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic SourcePackage: tar Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

