I am trying to understand what on earth is happening with linux archiving tools such as 7z.
My 'workflow' involves backing up a lot of symlinks. I've always used 7z for this, sometimes from the GUI 'Compress' program that nemo runs. Never been a problem, all symlinks whether relative, absolute, pointing outside the archive, or even dead are saved and restored without issue.
However, I recently tried Linux Mint 22, and this no longer appears to be the case. The symlink handling is very broken (see my post https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=430258 )
Investigating, I found that Mint 22 is using a lot of much newer software that is in Debian (and also Ubuntu) which for 7z is around 16/17 whereas in Mint it is 23.
What is going on here? The tools on Mint seemed to be quite broken if there's any symlinks present, sometimes giving up completely, or sometimes producing an incomplete folder hierarchy.
Is this a known problem, and this is why 'professional' distributions like Debian/Ubuntu have held back updating these tools?
What is the future plan for these tools? I need to backup my symlinks for my development work-flow.
My 'workflow' involves backing up a lot of symlinks. I've always used 7z for this, sometimes from the GUI 'Compress' program that nemo runs. Never been a problem, all symlinks whether relative, absolute, pointing outside the archive, or even dead are saved and restored without issue.
However, I recently tried Linux Mint 22, and this no longer appears to be the case. The symlink handling is very broken (see my post https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=430258 )
Investigating, I found that Mint 22 is using a lot of much newer software that is in Debian (and also Ubuntu) which for 7z is around 16/17 whereas in Mint it is 23.
What is going on here? The tools on Mint seemed to be quite broken if there's any symlinks present, sometimes giving up completely, or sometimes producing an incomplete folder hierarchy.
Is this a known problem, and this is why 'professional' distributions like Debian/Ubuntu have held back updating these tools?
What is the future plan for these tools? I need to backup my symlinks for my development work-flow.
Statistics: Posted by Makhnoa — 2024-09-20 08:09 — Replies 3 — Views 117