Bug 52084

Summary: create with --absolute-names, extract without -> hard links don't work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component: tarAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2001-08-20 13:05:27 UTC
If you create a tar archive with --absolute-names and then extract it
without that option, any hard links in the tar archive won't be created
properly.  I'll attach a patch.

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2001-08-20 13:05:51 UTC
Created attachment 28434 [details]
fix the bug

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 13:13:31 UTC
Thanks, added in 1.13.19-8


Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 13:14:00 UTC
Typo. -6 of course.