Bug#452365: symlink eating bug

2013-05-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
Control: found -1 1.26+dfsg-0.1 Hello. Here I just got a bunch of broken symlinks after upgrading a system from squeeze to wheezy and at the same time moving to a new hw -- for which I installed wheezy on a new hw and tar'ed stuff from /home and similar to the new machine. In process, all

Bug#452365: symlink eating bug still present in tar 1.23-3

2012-04-11 Thread Attila Kinali
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:52:34 -0600 Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:15:17 +0200, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote: I just got hit by this bug as well. Unfortunately i cannot make a simple testcase that reproduces this bug. All my attempts failed. But at least i

Bug#452365: symlink eating bug still present in tar 1.23-3

2012-04-10 Thread Attila Kinali
Package: tar Version: 1.23-3 Severity: normal Moin, I just got hit by this bug as well. Unfortunately i cannot make a simple testcase that reproduces this bug. All my attempts failed. But at least i can reproduce it. What i did was: tar cf - blah | (cd /somewhere/else; tar xf -) an strace

Bug#452365: symlink eating bug still present in tar 1.23-3

2012-04-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:15:17 +0200, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote: I just got hit by this bug as well. Unfortunately i cannot make a simple testcase that reproduces this bug. All my attempts failed. But at least i can reproduce it. Do you think the problem is still present in tar