[OE-core] [PATCH] oe/path.py: copyhardlinktree: don't overwrite existing symlinks

[Ioan-Adrian Ratiu]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 14:13 +0300, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>> Starting with tar>=1.26 the default behaviour when extracting is to
>> overwrite symlinks and a '-h' flag was added for tar to follow them.
>>
>> The primary use case for this is to allow ${DEPLOY_DIR_IPK/RPM/DEB}
>> to
>> be symlinks and avoid copyhardlinktree replacing those symlinks with
>> a
>> normal directory.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at ni.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/lib/oe/path.py | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Does the -h option exist for tar < 1.26?

Actually it was introduced for extraction in tar 1.24, but for the
archiving command it existed much longer (I went back and confirmed
until release 1.14 in 2004 where the tar git log ends).

The tar git commit which added -h for extraction in 1.24 is:
14efeb9f956e38d7be (tar: --dereference consistency)

-h is set by default when creating archives for systems supporting
symlinks, but -h when extracting is not set by default.

Sorry for the 1.24/1.26 mixup, I'll ammend the patch msg in v2.

Do you want me to do some version checking? (GNU tar 1.24 was released
in 2011).

Ionel

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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