Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

[Alexander List <alexlist@ees2.oulu.fi>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:

>AL> maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar
>AL> the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a
>AL> directory in it's place:

>That's normal.  After untarring, just "mv linux linux-2.x.y" for the
>appropriate x and y, then "ln -s linux-2.x.y linux" to recreate your symlink.

I know that, thanks anyway. I believe this behaviour must have changed,
because it worked earlier to create the symlink, then untar it, and find
the files in the directory that was symlinked. That's what puzzled me, that
this worked before...

Alex