Re: bin/54467: new tar overwrites symlinks to directories

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, John D. Baker wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR bin/54467; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: bin/54467: new tar overwrites symlinks to directories
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:40:07 -0500 (CDT)
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:25:00 +0000 (UTC), martin%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
>
> > The new tar(1) is overeager in restoring directories if those already
> > exist as a symlink to another directory.
>
> > This kills updates on machines that have /usr as a symlink to someplace
> > else
>
> This also kills 'named' if one has it running chrooted.  The migration
> process copies "/etc/namedb/*" to "/var/chroot/named/etc/namedb/" and
> replaces "/etc/namedb" with a symlink.
>
> After an update, "/etc/namedb" is overwritten back to a directory and
> the subsequent 'etcupdate' reports "root.cache", "bind.keys", etc. as
> missing.

As well as unbound. I was wondering why it kept getting clobbered until
I saw this thread.

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