Hello, I use GNU tar from Gnuwin32 to backup my Cygwin installation on Windows 7, but restoring breaks symbolic links. The same problem appears with bsdtar from gnuwin using a posix archive format.
The restored link files contain the destination if you open them in an editor, but no they longer appear as symbolic links to the filesystem (e.g. with ls -l). For example, /etc/alternatives becomes a set of text files. The only solutions I've found are to either dereference the links with tar -h or to reinstall all previously installed packages using the Cygwin installer. The installer is able to pickup what I have installed, so I can just click the global reinstall, but I feel like there must be a better way. I'd appreciate suggestions for alternatives or pointers to fixing the issue with tar. Thanks, Dan Plassche -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
