tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

[Marco Atzeri]

On 30.01.2021 15:58, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote:
> Dear Cygwin Team,
> 
> is there an update on this? Apparently tar is broken on Cygwin 32 since 
> the latest update (it works fine on 64 bit Cygwin) and afaik there is no 
> way to install specific package versions from the command line as would 
> be possible via the Setup UI, so I can't easily roll back to the 
> previous version of tar. IMHO this is a very severe issue - tar is 
> ubiquitous.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael

have you tried the Cygwin snapshot as suggested in:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2021-January/247418.html

Regards
Marco