From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikhail Ramendik Subject: Problem with untarring dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:23:44 +0300 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1080318223.5949.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bart Oldeman Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Bart and list, I have started to catch the problem that leads to a failing SRPM build. Apparently, under some conditions, tar --no-same-owner -xzpf dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz or even: tar -xzf dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz produces a zero-length zero-permission file instead of every symlink. And it also produces a number of lines line this: tar: dosemu/freedos/bin/command.com: Cannot unlink: Permission denied I found that this happens in some directories and not in others, while I have full (rwx) access to any of them; running as normal user in both cases. I am now trying to pinpoint the exact situations in which this happens. In fact, this may even be a bug in tar. (I am using GNU tar 1.13.25 from ASP Linux, probably same as RH9; I could not find a later version, and gnu.org just has 1.13). Yours, Mikhail Ramendik