Re: bin/38066: tar doesn't dearchive correctly long symlinks

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38066; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/38066: tar doesn't dearchive correctly long symlinks
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:19:23 +0100

 On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  It seems that libarchive is the only archiver that puts anything else but
 >  ././@LongLink in the extended record, and it does not need to. By not 
 > checking
 >  the value in the extended record, we are making it impossible to have 
 > further
 >  extensions.
 
 star also has ././@LongName. Let me repeat -- this flags all have
 correct POSIX compliant fields. Those should be used and not magic
 matching on the name.
 
 Joerg