Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:35:52 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? Message-ID: <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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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.
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