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

[Carl Edquist]

This was an issue for me too.  In case it's any easier for maintainers to 
review, I also posted a very minimal patch to fix the issue in this email 
to the list:

        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2020-02/msg00002.html

Thanks,
Carl

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, 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.
>
> Pavel