> > One other minor qualm is the fact that gzip and tar are dynamicly linked.
> > this causes the unfortunate problem that while attempting to update your
> > /usr/lib tree, tar clobbers libc.9.0.so and causes it's own core dump.  
> > leaving you with a 0 byte libc.so.
> 
> That's why you --exclude libc.so.9.0 from the extraction process.

That's why some of us relink tar to be statically linked, so that no matter
how hosed a system gets, it can be quickly restored using a tool we're familiar
with...  (But I'd forgotten about gzip, I'll have to do that one, too.)

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