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Re: tar's on DragonFly


From: Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:47:02 +0200

Hasso Tepper wrote:

For some unknown reason both libarchive tar and gtar are broken on DragonFly - they are preserving permissions of extracted files (like in case of -p) if executed by root.

It doesn't seem to affect a lot of cases (you rarely run tar as root etc), but breaks hell a lot of pkgsrc packages.




Solaris 10 has this exact behaviour - running 'tar' as root implies '-p'.
AFAIK 'tar' is not standardized, so packages that rely on tar being GNU tar or some such are themselves broken.





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