Am 23.11.2010 23:58, schrieb Andy Polyakov via RT: > My MSYS is older... What I can tell about it is that 'ln -s' "works" by > *copying* the file to target location. Or should I say "pretends > working". Your tar might do the same, i.e. defer symlink "resolution" > till the end of tar-file and copy the files. Can you confirm this? It > should be noted that Vista and onward implements symbolic links, and > it's not impossible to imagine that new enough MSYS would take advantage > of it:-) > >> also did just some tests on Linux, and it seems that -h does only work >> for archiving, but not extracting: >> tar xfz openssl-1.0.0b.tar.gz >> tar cf openssl-1.0.0b.tar openssl-1.0.0b/ >> tar chf openssl-1.0.0b-h.tar openssl-1.0.0b/ >> ll *.tar >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21575680 Nov 20 03:15 openssl-1.0.0b-h.tar >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19793920 Nov 20 03:15 openssl-1.0.0b.tar > > Right, this was exactly suggestion in #2273. I.e. re-pack resolving > symbolic links. > > Either way, shall we settle for > http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20071. Cheers. A. yes, that's ok - lets close this bug then.
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