On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Xavier<shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Cedric Staniewski<cedric@gmx.ca> wrote:
Xavier wrote:
But should we remove the symlink manually then? _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list pacman-dev@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
I'm not sure. Always thought they are there on purpose (mostly used bsdtar), even though they are usually not needful.
The current behaviors are: bsdtar keeps symlinks gunzip removes symlinks bunzip2 removes symlinks xz keeps symlinks
Thank you, thats very informative :) So we were already inconsistent before. What about always keeping symlinks, ie adding -k to gunzip and bunzip2 as well?
We should always keep, this was probably an oversight when adding direct decompression of non-tar formats. That way someone can very easily see what source was copied in that directory both before and after decompression. -Dan