Re: [expert] Kernel and Tar file ?

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > No. The symlink will get overwritten, but not the 2.2.9-27 directory.
> > 
> My experience (tar xvf after un-bzipping) is that it does not
> overwrite the DIRECTORY name, but it *will* overwrite the files *IN*
> the directory.
>       John

Correct.. The tarball only contains a linux/ tree.

rm linux
mkdir linux-%version
ln -s linux-%version linux
bzcat linux-%version.tar.bz2 | tar xv


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