Package: tar
Version: 1.16-2etch1
Followup-For: Bug #377785
>From what I can tell, symlinks that are to be extracted in directories
first use a 0 byte file. The directory is apparently writable during
extraction, then permissions are applied to the directory, and then
symlinks are converted. This causes a problem when directories
have no write permission. The result leaves the 0 byte file
(placeholder) but only yells EACCES when trying to unlink it.
Resources used to isolate this: (may help as a workaround too)
This workaround assumes double quotes are not part of your filenames :)
script "../my.transcript" -c "strace -o ../my.strace -- tar xvf
../snapshot.mine"
grep EACCES ../my.strace | awk -F\" '{print $2}' \|
grep -F -f - --color ../my.transcript
find ./ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v 755
grep EACCES ../my.strace | awk -F\" '{print $2}' \|
awk -F\" '{print $2}' | ... (next four in order)
xargs ls -l
xargs rm
xargs tar -xvf ../snapshot.mine -T -
xargs ls -l
Thanks, and enjoy.
Scott Edwards
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