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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>,
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: haris.okanovic@ni.com, ken.sharp@ni.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oe/path.py: copyhardlinktree: don't overwrite existing symlinks
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:53:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1503050017.32591.7.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170816111355.11347-1-adrian.ratiu@ni.com>

On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 14:13 +0300, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> Starting with tar>=1.26 the default behaviour when extracting is to
> overwrite symlinks and a '-h' flag was added for tar to follow them.
> 
> The primary use case for this is to allow ${DEPLOY_DIR_IPK/RPM/DEB}
> to
> be symlinks and avoid copyhardlinktree replacing those symlinks with
> a
> normal directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>
> ---
>  meta/lib/oe/path.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Does the -h option exist for tar < 1.26?

Cheers,

Richard


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-18  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16 11:13 [PATCH] oe/path.py: copyhardlinktree: don't overwrite existing symlinks Ioan-Adrian Ratiu
2017-08-18  9:53 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2017-08-21 10:45   ` Ioan-Adrian Ratiu

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