[TriLUG] Moving a subdirectory tree

[Tom Bryan]

On Monday 04 February 2002 05:21 am, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> If you go back to the tar-copy method, do a 'tar --help' or 'man tar'.
> There are options to (GNU) tar that have it preserve permissions and
> timestamps.

Yep.  That's the point, really.  The -p option seems to be preserving the 
timestamps for everything *except* symlinks. 

At this point, I could just ignore the RPM verify warnings, but I'm curious 
to know whether there's simply know way to update a symlink's timestamp.

---Tom