Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> lrwxrwxrwx something -> /etc/passwd
> -rw-r--r-- something
>
> If you extract that with a standard tar (the latest GNU tar is safe) this
> will happily overwrite /etc/passwd. If you have the recent GNU tar dpkg
> will be safe since it calls tar, I don't know how rpm handles that.
RPM is fine -- it doesn't follow symlinks on extraction.
Erik
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