On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Tom Berger wrote:

> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > No. The symlink will get overwritten, but not the 2.2.9-27 directory.
> > > >
> > > My experience (tar xvf after un-bzipping) is that it does not
> > > overwrite the DIRECTORY name, but it *will* overwrite the files *IN*
> > > the directory.
> > >       John
> > 
> > Correct.. The tarball only contains a linux/ tree.
> > 
> > rm linux
> > mkdir linux-%version
> > ln -s linux-%version linux
> > bzcat linux-%version.tar.bz2 | tar xv
> > 
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft          http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> >                                         --Axalon
> 
> 
> Oops. Sorry. Was perfectly sure of this...
> 
> tom

Technicly what you said is correct John just cleared it up a little. I
thought i'd make sure everybody knew we were all really talking about the
same thing ;)

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