[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Fix xz extraction

Cedric Staniewski cedric at gmx.ca
Tue Aug 4 13:06:55 EDT 2009


Xavier wrote:
> 
> But should we remove the symlink manually then?
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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


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