Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> 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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> --Axalon
Oops. Sorry. Was perfectly sure of this...
tom
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