Subject: Re: bug#23285: tar lacks a 'preserve symlinks on extract' option
From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Vas Dias <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:04:30 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tag 23285 notabug
thanks

On 04/13/2016 02:58 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> There appears to be no way of telling tar
> not to replace a destination symlink with a directory ,
> in this scenario :

Thanks for the report.  However, you've reached the coreutils list,
which does not include tar; and tar does not (yet?) use the
debbugs.gnu.org bug tracker, so we can't reassign your bug.  The best we
can do is close this bug (as it is not a coreutils problem) and tell you
to resend your mail to [email-masked], as directed by 'tar --help'.

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