Busybox tar can't extract mercurial tarballs with symlinks.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sunday 20 July 2008 15:11, Rob Landley wrote:
> Try downloading http://landley.net/hg/firmware/archive/372.tar.bz2 and 
> extracting it with busybox tar.  It is Unhappy.

Wow. tarball contains a symlink with size field set to nonzero.
GNU tar 1.15.1 can extract it, has problems with listing (tar tf).
Fix is here:

http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/busybox-1.11.1-tar.patch
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