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# Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*-

# Test suite for GNU tar.
# Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# any later version.

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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# 02110-1301, USA.

# Description:
# Check if restore from incremental backups does not choke on dangling
# symlinks.
# References: <20050821163500.2772914828A@blake.inputplus.co.uk>
# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-08/msg00023.html

AT_SETUP([restore broken symlinks from incremental])
AT_KEYWORDS([incremental incr01])

AT_TAR_CHECK([
mkdir directory
$as_ln_s foo directory/bar

tar -cf archive.0 -g db directory
rm directory/bar
tar -cf archive.1 -g db directory

mv directory orig

tar xvfg archive.0 /dev/null
echo separator
tar xvfg archive.1 /dev/null
],
[0],
[directory/
directory/bar
separator
directory/
tar: Deleting `directory/bar'
],
[],[],[],[gnu, oldgnu, posix])

AT_CLEANUP