[Tfug] tar pits

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Aug 27 20:05:05 MST 2007


Don't cd to /. Just extract them to where you want them. For example 
xsrc tarball will extract to usr/xsrc/.

Using the NetBSD tar(1), add the --keep-old-files switch. It works for me. 
It doesn't overwrite your new symlink.

  Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I am glad to read some NetBSD discussion :)




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