On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:29:18AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:54:44AM +0200, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote: > > > Somewhere between Netbsd-8 and NetBSD-9 "tar" changed its behaviour > > > when it has to extract a directory and the path exists as a symlink. > > > > I still believe it should be fixed, but J?rg disagrees. You need to use -P > > now. See PR 54467. > > Yeah it's a real pain in my you-know-what. Is it Joerg vs everyone else?
It is NetBSD pax vs every pretty much any maintained tar implementation. Joerg
