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From: Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: uclibc@××××××.org, gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: tar-1.26 not unpacking archives with symlinks?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:10:58
Message-Id: 4F7AFCB3.8000108@wildgooses.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Re: tar-1.26 not unpacking archives with symlinks? by Mike Frysinger
1 On 02/04/2012 05:38, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:33:02 Ed W wrote:
3 >> Hi, I'm hitting an error when trying to unpack archives with the
4 >> recently unmasked tar-1.26. Basically any symlinks in the archive
5 >> trigger an "unknown file" error. This prevents me using emerge -k
6 >> amongst other things
7 >>
8 >> I only see this on uclibc-0.9.33 based system, not on the build host
9 >> which uses glibc amd64
10 >>
11 >> Can anyone else repro this and shed any light on what the problem might
12 >> be? Problem in tar or uclibc?
13 > fchmodat() is a syscall that takes 3 args. uClibc was providing a stub that
14 > treated it as 4. i fixed things up, so if you want to try with the fix i just
15 > committed, that'd be nice ...
16 > -mike
17
18 Excellent - many thanks
19
20 Out of the country at present - will verify on my return
21
22 Again many thanks
23
24 Ed W