How to fix : Cannot extract through symlink

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

Whenever I try to install any rpm under my Linuxulator (linux_base-c7), 
I get the error: cannot extract through <sym>

<sym> can be bin / sbin / lib / lib64, which are symbolic links to 
usr/<sym> (under the path /compat/linux/)

Each time I am faced with this problem, I have to delete <sym> and copy 
the actual directory in its place. But this is far less than ideal.

1) Is there some way I can avoid the above mess ?
2) If not, there was a time under Unix when hard-linking a directory was 
possible. Is there some hack by which I could hard-link directories 
under FreeBSD ?

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Thanks & Regards,
Manish Jain