[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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