René Scharfe wrote: > Am 07.01.2013 09:52, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: >> Hm. Do some implementations of "unzip" not support symlinks, or is >> the problem that some systems build Info-ZIP without the SYMLINKS >> option? > > The unzip supplied with NetBSD 6.0.1, which is based on libarchive, doesn't > support symlinks. It creates a file with the link target path as its only > content for such entries.
Ok, that makes sense. A quick search finds <https://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=104>, which if I understand correctly was fixed in libarchive 3.0.2. NetBSD 6 uses a patched 2.8.4. [...] > For the test script there is no difference: If we don't have a tool to > verify symlinks in archives, we better skip that part. Yeah, I just wanted to see if there were other parts of the world that needed fixing while at it. Thanks for explaining. Ciao, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
