How to fix : Cannot extract through symlink

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:59:58 +0100 Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:37:43 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 ?  
> 
> Try extracting with tar -P, but please read the tar manual because -P
> does other things like preserving absolute paths.

Instead of using -P perhaps it's better to extract into a temporary
directory and move bin, sbin, lib, and lib64 to usr there.  Then copy
everything to /compat/linux.  That's essentially what we do in the
ports tree.