https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396842 Summary: nasty bug in tar turns symlinks into zero-length files Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Doing a backup/restore I found this bug which was very annoying, and almost certainly not what you want to have happen. After I got a running system again, I google'd and found this: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg01362.html which is exactly the problem I encountered. The last message in that thread contains a patch, as does CVS probably. The bug is present in both 10.3 and 11.0 (rc1) versions of openSUSE, at least those versions of tar that are on the rescue media. If it were not for star restoring my backup would have been very painful! Please get this bug fixed any way you can. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.