Package: cpio Version: 2.6-4 Followup-For: Bug #326090
It's much worse than just that cpio -p does not copy dangling symlinks. Try adding to your archive a symlink that's not dangling, but whose target file is not in the archive. In this case, cpio dereferences the link and includes the pointed-to file in the archive rather than the link! e.g.: ln -sf /proc/kcore /dev/core find /dev -xdev -true -print | cpio -o -H ustar -a | gzip -c -9 > /tmp/dev.tar.gz You'll find the entire contents of your RAM in /tmp/dev.tar.gz if you execute that as root. /dev/core gets dereferenced, and the *entire* contents of /proc/kcore gets added to the archive. Not what I'm looking for in a disk backup solution. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.29 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages cpio depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an cpio recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
