From a94d5c66f29ae77337522af66f1faf0915bd9981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 19:18:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added another deref

hopefully just missed this one case; our expected linked files never showed up in archive.
---
 scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
index 3a24cc4e..efa6bd20 100644
--- a/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
+++ b/scripts/archival/shared_snarfer.pl
@@ -387,7 +387,12 @@ sub backup_number {
   print NUM_PREFIX $number_prefix;
   close(NUM_PREFIX);
 
-  $outcome = 0xff & system $tar_tool, "-rf",
+  $outcome = 0xff & system $tar_tool, 
+
+#hmmm: trying to dereference symbolic links and stop missing stuff.
+"-h",
+
+"-rf",
       &canonicalize($target_file), &canonicalize($prefix_file);
   if ($outcome) { die("failure to archive"); }
   unlink($prefix_file);
-- 
2.34.1