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Description of problem:

We are facing issue with tar command with --remove-files option and it is not working with tar-1.23-3.el6

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

tar-1.23-3.el6

How reproducible:

1. touch original ; ln -s original symlink ;
2. cd ..
3. tar -zcf test.gz test --remove-files
Cannot rmdir: Directory not empty
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
  
Actual results:
Cannot rmdir: Directory not empty

Expected results:
No error

Additional info:

This bug is fixed in 1.26 version. I tested it and it worked fine.

I believe this bug report is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698212 and is fixed in current tar build ( tar-1.23-7.el6 ) available in RHEL-6.3 beta .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698212 ***