Re: [cobalt-developers] cmu export issues with tar

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Since this is the first time I ever used these files,
> I have a funny feeling the cmuExport never created the tars properly.
> I have many files that are broken that it dumped into a directory
> on my raq 4. They were not mangled by ftp.

> Herb


I have reports that GNU Tar does not read symlinks properly if they are created
with the Tar.pm perl module.   It does not means that archive is broken, but
the stardard Tar cannot read it properly.  I am currently looking into this
issue and hopefully will have some more information soon.

Jeff-