"Simon J. Gerraty" wrote:

> I may have hosed something by simply unpacking the 1.5 sets over the
> old ones?  While running them mind you.  I've done this ok in the past
> with tar and the --unlink bit but I can never remember if its 
> 	tar xfp - --unlink 
> 	tar --unlink xfp - 
> or what, and tar is very pedantic about it, so I used pax this time which
> is what the install/upgrade scripts use, but I don't know if pax does
> the --unlink business.

FWIW, our version of gnutar does --unlink automatically, and has done
for a number of years.  At least you don't need to worry about that
part...  I _think_ pax unlinks as well.

Simon.
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