add optional disablement of symlink validation#119
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LGTM, landing on green |
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Some tarballs have symlinks that are valid after extraction but not from the context of the extraction working directory, specifically, a symlink with an absolute path that is valid once you enter the chroot. An example of tool that creates tarballs like this is lxc distro builder: https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder, the tar cli program is also able to extract these and prior versions of this module were able to extract these.
This adds the ability to disable symlink validation with a new parameter
validateSymlinkswhich defaults to true if not provided.