From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 18:43: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF0D37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B465043E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 18:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g791glQZ068986 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:12:52 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Tar not following links now? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Aug 2002 11:12:47 +0930 Message-Id: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently updated several machines to -stable (OpenSSL :) and found that tar nolonger seems to follow links. [cain 11:06] ~/projects/rrd >ls -lad /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Mar 15 12:26 /home -> /usr/home [cain 11:09] ~/projects/rrd >ls -lad /usr/home drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Mar 28 10:05 /usr/home [cain 11:05] ~/projects/rrd >tar -Pcf - /home/ | tar -tvf - lrwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Mar 15 12:26 2002 /home -> /usr/home [cain 11:08] ~/projects/rrd >uname -a FreeBSD cain.gsoft.com.au 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #10: Tue Aug 6 11:49:28 CST 2002 doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CAIN i386 As opposed to my older system [chowder 11:10] ~ >ls -lad /home lrwx------ 1 root wheel 9 Aug 20 2001 /home -> /usr/home [chowder 11:10] ~ >ls -lad /usr/home drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 20 17:04 /usr/home [chowder 11:09] ~ >tar -Pcf - /home/ | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Jul 20 17:04 2002 /home/ drwxr-xr-x radar/radar 0 Aug 9 10:35 2002 /home/radar/ [ .... ] [chowder 11:09] ~ >uname -a FreeBSD chowder.gsoft.com.au 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #12: Fri May 10 15:54:54 CST 2002 darius@chowder.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHOWDER i386 It seems like a bit of a POLA violation especially as the man page doesn't appear to mention and option to get the old behaviour back. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message