Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:24:57 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tar xf foo -- how to restore symlink? Message-ID: <44sh7qvwly.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <9e435ffd-8997-74c7-9502-854a004ac5cc@dreamchaser.org> (Gary Aitken's message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:00:13 -0600") References: <5ff313cf-6148-be90-0195-7d21f1f836ac@dreamchaser.org> <20180418063005.056e321d.freebsd@edvax.de> <9902b54d-4684-6ba6-a08b-f3d9504c1273@dreamchaser.org> <20180419160503.38e1aa75.freebsd@edvax.de> <9e435ffd-8997-74c7-9502-854a004ac5cc@dreamchaser.org>
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Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> writes: > Unfortunately, I'm not in control of generating the archive or the way > it's fetched. It's fetched via the ports system. I'm going to punt on > the project for now as I've got a better alternative. Sounds like you aren't aware that our cpio(1) can extract tar files.
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