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#Fedora update done, smooth sailing even on ZFS as root filesystem.
Previously, I had multiple failed offline upgrades with ZFS root (it would just reboot again without doing the update), and I suspect `systemctl add-requires local-fs.target zfs-mount.service` fixed it because the `/system-update` symlink pointed into a non-mounted filesystem without that.
Now enjoying the warm fuzzy fee…

Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:

A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes them from the archive, and later recreates them after extraction.
A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes ...