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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:54:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1655a453-25d0-3e71-2e43-0072a795c1f4@freesbee.fr> ("Vincent
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Vincent Rivière writes:
> On 10/01/2021 à 14:50, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> GNU tar has been updated to the latest upstream release 1.33.
>
> Unfortunately it has reintroduced this old bug:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg00006.html

It's quite unlikely the same bug since there is actually a test for that.

> This happens when symlinks are located before the target in the source
> archive. The example given in the above link produces this output:
>
> $ tar -xf directory.tar
> tar: directory/1: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory
> tar: directory/2: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory
> tar: directory/3: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Cannot reproduce.


Regards,
Achim.
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