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Description of problem:

When extracting a cpio archive and attempting to preserve timestamps, the timestamps of soft links are not preserved.

This results in erroneous date differences between the cpio archive and its extracted content.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

cpio-2.11-24.el7.x86_64


Steps to Reproduce:
1.cd /usr/lib
2.find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pmvd /tmp/test.cpio
3.ls -l /usr/lib
4.ls -l /tmp/test.cpio

Actual results:
timestamp for normal files and directories is preserved, but not for soft links

Expected results:
timestamp for all files preserved

Additional Info:

A bug appears to be open against Fedora as well here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486364

Thanks for the report.  This is upstream issue, proposal:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-cpio@gnu.org/msg00605.html

Another upstream ping:
https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-cpio@gnu.org/msg00620.html

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: cpio security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1582