Package: tar Version: 1.22-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Bdale,
Please pass on my following request to tar developers, which results from soliciting comments from debian.user: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/354128 I.e., I hope there is a straightforward way to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Let me explain with an example: mkdir d1 touch d1/{a,b,c} ln -s c d1/d ln -s d1 d2 I want that the result tar file looks like this: tar -tvzf d2.tgz drwxrwx--x tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/ -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/a -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/b -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/c lrwxrwxrwx tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/d -> c Reason behind the request: Simple -- I want to maintain an identical working environment across all places, in my prime home environment, or on remote sites, on Live CDs or their HD installations. The most important thing about the "identical" is logical identical, as oppose to physical. I.e., I expect a certain path name to be at a specific location, across all environments that I work in, despite the fact that such path name might be a symlink one to other folder on another volume with another name in my prime home environment. Proposed solution, either - differentiate "d2" and "d2/" as sync does, - or add a option similar to find's -H: "Do not follow symbolic links, except while processing the command line arguments." Thanks Tong -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-grml64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co pn ncompress <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
