Re: bin/54467: broken tar symlink behaviour

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54467; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/54467: broken tar symlink behaviour
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:29:03 +0200

 This behaviour is documented, see the SECURITY section in tar(1).
 Unfortunately there seems to be no option to supress this behaviour.
 
 We will have to make sure all install media have pax installed and switch
 to that (or backout the switch to bsdtar).
 
 Martin