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* Problem with untarring dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz
@ 2004-03-26 16:23 Mikhail Ramendik
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From: Mikhail Ramendik @ 2004-03-26 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bart Oldeman; +Cc: linux-msdos

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



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