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Re: Unexpected behaviour when creating a tarball with -h: symlinks are r
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: Unexpected behaviour when creating a tarball with -h: symlinks are replaced by hardlinks |
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Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:12:52 +0200 |
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Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> And finally, there is
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> -link-data
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> see page 35, which is allowed for the POSIX.1-1988 TAR archive format and
> later
> versions. -link-data tells star to archive the data again for hardlinkes
> files.
Sorry for the mistake, star supports -link-data only if the archive format is
-Hexustar
I now believe to remember that permitting link data was added with POSIX.1-2001
BTW: star is part of the schilytools at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
Jörg
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