From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 22:35:59 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 6007937B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79F343E6E for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020809053555.WHUD23732.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 05:35:55 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g795ZsJK080073; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g795Zqss080072; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:52 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? Message-ID: <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:12:47AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. The "new" behavior is the correct behavior. I'm not sure when or why things were broken in your 4.6-PRERELEASE example. The option you want is the '-h' option. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message