Tar -x could change your symlinks to directories

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I encountered the problem, that /usr/lib64 wasn’t a symlink anymore. The reason was a script which installed files into /usr/lib64 by tar -x …
The problem is also described at
linux - How to prevent tar extraction from overwriting symbolic links directories - Stack Overflow.

How to prevent tar -x correctly from replacing symlinks to directories?

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The solution seems to be in “man tar”:

–keep-directory-symlink
Don’t replace existing symlinks to directories when extracting.

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