tar xf foo -- how to restore symlink?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> writes:

> Unfortunately, I'm not in control of generating the archive or the way
> it's fetched.  It's fetched via the ports system.  I'm going to punt on
> the project for now as I've got a better alternative.

Sounds like you aren't aware that our cpio(1) can extract tar files.