I don't think --chroot in any way fixes the problem. Could you explain
why you think it would? I think this should be reopened.

Perry

dsl@netbsd.org writes:

> Synopsis: extracting distribution .tar.gz files with pax nukes my symlinks
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: dsl@narn.netbsd.org
> State-Changed-When: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:43:02 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> sysinst has been changed to use the new --chroot option to 'pax ar tar'
> together with -h this should solve this problem
>
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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com