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Tar fails to extract symlinks correctly #1048

Open belsunce opened 2 months ago

belsunce commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug Package: tar 1.34-4

Extracting an archive with tar fails to extract symlinks correctly: /opt/bin/tar -xvf syslinux-6.03.tar.gz syslinux-6.03/libinstaller/advconst.h: Cannot change mode to rwxrwxrwx: Too many levels of symbolic links

Package: tar Version: 1.34-4 Depends: xz, libc, libssp, librt, libpthread, libacl, libattr, bzip2 Architecture: armv7-2.6

Environment (please complete the following information):

Entware feed: armv7sf-k2.6
Device: Netgear R7000
Firmware version: FreshTomato Version 2024.1
opkg version d038e5b6d155784575f62a66a8bb7e874173e92e (2022-02-24)

belsunce commented 2 months ago

I have figure out that tar 1.32 succeeded to extract symlinks correctly. Downgrading tar 1.32 restored the functionality. I have downloaded the following package for the router I use: tar_1.32-3_armv7-2.6.ipk