tar up a symbolic linked directory

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi, 

I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real
directory. Is there any easy way to do it?

Let me explain with an example (that you can try):

 mkdir d1
 touch d1/{a,b,c}
 ln -s c d1/d
 ln -s d1 d2

I want that the result tar file looks like this:

 tar -tvzf d2.tgz
 drwxrwx--x tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/
 -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/a
 -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/b
 -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/c
 lrwxrwxrwx tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/d -> c

Any easy way to do it? 

Thanks

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