[BusyBox] bug#1024: tar garbles symlinks
Erik Andersen
andersen at lineo.com
Tue Aug 22 00:11:01 UTC 2000
On Tue Aug 15, 2000 at 09:44:34AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: 0.45
> Severity: Normal
>
> When creating a tar archive containing directories containing multiple
> symlinks the symlinks become garbled
> eg
> adduser -> /bin/tinylogin
> ls -> /bin/busybox
> becomes (when untarred)
> adduser -> /bin/tinylogin
> ls -> /bin/busboxin
> (note reproducing this behavior seems to require many symlinks in a
> directory)
Already fixed in BusyBox 0.46 (released Jul 11, 2000):
* Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
Also of interest to you...
* Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
to Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo.de>
-Erik
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