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Ah, this might have something to do with the fact that zip archives don't seem to natively support symlinks. The tar headers do accept the symlink targets, but zip does not.

Apparently the zip command has a --symlinks option that does preserve them, to an extent, but with caveats: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1203925/using-zip-command-to-transfer-ubuntu-folders-with-symbol-links-in-them-to-window

Short answer: you can't [preserve symlinks] unless 1) the receiving file system supports linux symbolic links and 2) the target files/folders of the link are present

Thanks for setting up a reproducer. I'm just quickly triaging my backlog right now. Could you tell me if the error happens with tar archives too?

Anyway, the error shouldn't happen, I agree, I'm just trying to make sure I understand it well enough to make the right fix.

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.tar.gz does appear to work as expected.

the target files/folders of the link are present

Hmm, interesting. This does seem to be the case, but it just silently skips them. That's… terrible.

For what it's worth, the macOS compression utility is able to store them fine.

Which created - which the cli unzip command doesn't even have an issue with

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Thanks; I agree something should be fixed, just not quite sure how yet. The ZIP file header doesn't seem to support symlink information, so I'm not sure how to archive the link? I can see how we can dereference the symlink and archive the target file, but not the symlink.

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