X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E1EBCC6.9060506@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:54:14 +0300 From: yoni levi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: tar 1.25 fail to handle symliks correctly Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi, I know tar version 1.25 sporadically fail to untar symlinks under cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00335.html I switch to an older tar version (1.23) and everything is working perfectly. Since this is a critical bug (tar is practically unusable) - I think you should consider switch to an older tar version in the default cygwin installation. Yoni. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple