Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:59:58 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to fix : Cannot extract through symlink Message-ID: <20171221195958.010ce64f@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB12009190A3338F191796057EF60D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB12009190A3338F191796057EF60D0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:37:43 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > Whenever I try to install any rpm under my Linuxulator (linux_base-c7), > I get the error: cannot extract through <sym> > > <sym> can be bin / sbin / lib / lib64, which are symbolic links to > usr/<sym> (under the path /compat/linux/) > > Each time I am faced with this problem, I have to delete <sym> and copy > the actual directory in its place. But this is far less than ideal. > > 1) Is there some way I can avoid the above mess ? > 2) If not, there was a time under Unix when hard-linking a directory was > possible. Is there some hack by which I could hard-link directories > under FreeBSD ? Try extracting with tar -P, but please read the tar manual because -P does other things like preserving absolute paths.
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