Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:05:20 -0700 From: Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Tar problem Message-ID: <20040521180520.GA79342@users.altadena.net>
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I don't know how new this is but it didn't occur the last time I tried to unpack the ports collection (probably a year ago). I haven't got room on my usr disk for ports, so I symlink it off to a bulk disk (hardware, not nfs). When I unpack the ports collection, the symlink has been overwritten with the real directory (in this case it'll barely fit, but no builds work inside it...). I see that the default tar on this system is still gtar - I don't remember this behavior from the last time I tried the same thing. I only mention this because it is a real bother, and I've seen talk about changing versions of tar... Does the new version do the same? and/or is there an option whose default changed (like --posix?). If this is posix behavior then I see it as yet another gratuitous change that posix made just to bother old users (there are LOTS of those; the arg changes to sort, for another example). -- Pete
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