Package: tar Version: 1.26+dfsg-0.1 Severity: normal Transform by default also applies to symlink targets. In most cases, that's useful:
% touch foo % ln -s foo bar % tar --transform=s/o/u/ -cf baz foo bar % tar tvf baz -rw------- frank/frank 0 2015-01-13 03:35 fuo lrwxrwxrwx frank/frank 0 2015-01-13 03:35 bar -> fuo So far, so good. However, when the transform adds (or removes) a directory level, the resulting symlink is broken: % tar --transform=s,^,sub/, -cf baz foo bar % tar tvf baz -rw------- frank/frank 0 2015-01-13 03:35 sub/foo lrwxrwxrwx frank/frank 0 2015-01-13 03:35 sub/bar -> sub/foo I know it's not a trivial problem. With both above transforms combined, tar would need to apply the first and not the second to the target. Or more generally, apply the whole transform to the target, then if it's a relative link, add or remove the necessary directory levels ... For my current problem, the "S" flag will help me out since all affected symlinks are local, but in more complicated cases, it might not suffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
