On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:54:44AM +0200, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote: > Somewhere between Netbsd-8 and NetBSD-9 "tar" changed its behaviour > when it has to extract a directory and the path exists as a symlink. I still believe it should be fixed, but Jörg disagrees. You need to use -P now. See PR 54467. Martin