Re: [Bug-tar] tar: '--overwrite' cannot be used with '--no-overwrite-dir'

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Somchai,

> To achieve the goal of being able to unpack archives on top of a live
> filesystem but not alter existing system directories,

Just to make sure I understand the goal correctly: while extracting the
archive, tar should omit content of directories that already exist on
the filesystem?  E.g., if there is a directory /foo (with no files in
it) and the archive contains files /foo/bar and /foo/baz, these files
should not be extracted.  Is that what you need?

Regards,
Sergey