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Old 09-20-2010, 12:26 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
On a sidenote, the fairly recent busybox I have installed on my Gentoo ~x86 sytem does follow symlink by default too.
This is standard behavior for all POSIX compliant tar implementations. Unless amazon was to rewrite their busybox tar program (or simply roll their own from scratch) this should always work.

But if they move the mntroot command back below the initial unpack, then we're back to square one.
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