I recently updated several machines to -stable (OpenSSL :) and found that tar nolonger seems to follow links.
[cain 11:06] ~/projects/rrd >ls -lad /home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Mar 15 12:26 /home -> /usr/home [cain 11:09] ~/projects/rrd >ls -lad /usr/home drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 512 Mar 28 10:05 /usr/home [cain 11:05] ~/projects/rrd >tar -Pcf - /home/ | tar -tvf - lrwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Mar 15 12:26 2002 /home -> /usr/home [cain 11:08] ~/projects/rrd >uname -a FreeBSD cain.gsoft.com.au 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #10: Tue Aug 6 11:49:28 CST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CAIN i386 As opposed to my older system [chowder 11:10] ~ >ls -lad /home lrwx------ 1 root wheel 9 Aug 20 2001 /home -> /usr/home [chowder 11:10] ~ >ls -lad /usr/home drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 20 17:04 /usr/home [chowder 11:09] ~ >tar -Pcf - /home/ | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Jul 20 17:04 2002 /home/ drwxr-xr-x radar/radar 0 Aug 9 10:35 2002 /home/radar/ [ .... ] [chowder 11:09] ~ >uname -a FreeBSD chowder.gsoft.com.au 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #12: Fri May 10 15:54:54 CST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHOWDER i386 It seems like a bit of a POLA violation especially as the man page doesn't appear to mention and option to get the old behaviour back. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
