[TriLUG] Moving a subdirectory tree

[Benjamin Reed]

Tom Bryan [tbryan at python.net] wrote:
> 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.

Hrm... I would almost think this is an RPM bug then...  I thought the
stat of a symlink always resolved to the linked file anyways?!  As it
is, I'm not sure what you can do to fix it...

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