Fix SDK extraction failing on tarballs with symlinks (11.0.100-preview.2.26159.112)#326
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.NET 11 Preview 2+ SDK tarballs use symlink deduplication to reduce archive size. Zio's virtual filesystem cannot move symlinks, causing ExtractSdkToDir to fail with "Could not find file" errors. Resolve symlinks to regular files after tar extraction, before the Zio-based copy phase.
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## Summary Bump version to 1.1.2 for the next release. ## Changes since v1.1.1 ### Bug Fixes * Fix SDK extraction failing on tarballs with symlinks (.NET 11 Preview 2+) #326 ### Dependencies * Bump Azure.Security.KeyVault.Keys from 4.8.0 to 4.9.0 * Bump coverlet.collector from 6.0.4 to 8.0.0 * Bump xunit.v3 from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 * Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 18.0.1 to 18.3.0 * Bump Serde from 0.10.0 to 0.10.2 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
.NET 11 Preview 2+ SDK tarballs use symlink deduplication to reduce archive size (~140 MB of duplicates on Linux x64). After
tarextraction, these symlinks causeExtractSdkToDirto fail because Zio's virtual filesystem cannot move symlinks.ResolveSymlinksthat replaces symlinks with copies of their target files after tar extraction, before the Zio-based copy phaseExtractSdkWithSymlinkstest that creates a tarball mimicking the .NET 11 deduplication layout and verifies extraction succeedsAssert.SkipWhen) and on filesystems without symlink support (Assert.Skip)Test plan
ExtractSdkWithSymlinkstest passesInstallTestspassdotnet formatclean