On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:27 PM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If people can point me at some simple tests (sorry, I've not been
> following this thread), I can see what these tars do:
> NetBSD
> FreeBSD
> Irix
> Solaris
>
> They all appear to be different - at least, they all respond differently
> to 'tar --help'. This would tend to indicate to me that the solution is
> "use Archive::Tar".
Please see if they all honor a "--no-same-permissions" flag.
$ tar --help | grep no-same-permissions
--David