Hi, > The problem is described in this old Debian ticket: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775247 > > I'm now trying to figure out what Frank meant when referring to that > "S" flag. > > I have to figure out what is this 'S' flag (local symlinks, etc) or stop > using this --transform mechanism to have the dwarves-${version} top > level directory added when generating the tarball :-\ FWIW, the "S" flag means: Do not apply transformation to symbolic link targets. (see https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/transform.html -- it's a bit hard to find in the docs ...) In my use case, this allows me to build a dist archive from my main source directory, adding a directory level in the tar, while leaving symlinks unchanged: --transform='s|^|$(DIST_NAME)/|S' This is not a fully general solution to the problem as I described, and it may or may not help for your use case. Viele Grüße, Frank
