[Tfug] tar pits

[Bexley Hall]

Greetings!

--- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> Don't cd to /. Just extract them to where you want
> them. For example xsrc tarball will extract to
> usr/xsrc/.

Huh?  I thought the leading / was stripped off the
files as they were being tar'd up?  (I will have to
check... is there a way to tell tar *not* to strip
the leading /?  And, if so, I assume you are
claiming that is what makes the above possible??)

Regardless, why did the other tarballs unpack
"as (I) expected" -- but not this one?  :<

> Using the NetBSD tar(1), add the --keep-old-files
> switch. It works for me. 
> It doesn't overwrite your new symlink.

Ah, OK.  But, still, why didn't the others clobber
it?

> p.s. I am glad to read some NetBSD discussion :)

<grin> I don't run Linux...  ;-)

Thanks!
--don


       
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