Re: [Bug-cpio] [PATCH] extract: retain times for symlinks

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:53:15 PM CEST Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Friday, May 31, 2019 8:00:07 PM CEST Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 23, 2018 3:33:02 PM CEST Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > > Gently ping, interlinking with another (upstream) report:
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2017-12/msg00005.html
> > 
> > Ping again, I'm continuously asked about this.  Can I do something
> > with the patch to make it acceptable?
> 
> Still an issue, ping.  Red Hat mainainers are aware of a need to downstream
> patch this.

Meh, I wanted to write "are afraid".  Can we please tak a look at this?

This is per new bug report, but similar patch is worth applying:
https://github.com/praiskup/cpio/commit/cdea81b5a6b8637eeb0fd518c053ad263402b8c2

Pavel