Busybox tar can't extract mercurial tarballs with symlinks.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jul 20 13:11:10 UTC 2008


Try downloading http://landley.net/hg/firmware/archive/372.tar.bz2 and 
extracting it with busybox tar.  It is Unhappy.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.



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