Vincent Rivière writes: > On 10/01/2021 à 14:50, Achim Gratz wrote: >> GNU tar has been updated to the latest upstream release 1.33. > > Unfortunately it has reintroduced this old bug: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-08/msg00006.html
It's quite unlikely the same bug since there is actually a test for that. > This happens when symlinks are located before the target in the source > archive. The example given in the above link produces this output: > > $ tar -xf directory.tar > tar: directory/1: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory > tar: directory/2: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory > tar: directory/3: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: No such file or directory > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Cannot reproduce. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple