Hi,
after long searching I now found the reason for some mysterious
directory permission changes on a Linux server that uses partially a
self-compiled tar version 1.28 (under the name "gnutar"):
If one unpacks a tar-archive using the option --one-top-level and the
archive contains an entry like
./
than the current working directory get the permissions (and the date) of
that directory in the tar archive file.
Here an example (notice the permission change of the directory
/tmp/testdir):
/tmp/testdir> ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 30. Apr 14:10 .
/tmp/testdir> /usr/local/bin/gnutar tvf /tmp/tartest.tar
drwx--xr-- user/group 0 2016-04-30 13:44 ./
drwxr-xr-x user/group 0 2016-04-30 13:44 ./foo/
-rw-r--r-- user/group 0 2016-04-30 13:44 ./foo/bar
/tmp/testdir> /usr/local/bin/gnutar --one-top-level="/dev/shm/tartest_out" -xf
"/tmp/tartest.tar"
/tmp/testdir> ls -ld .
drwx--xr-- 2 user group 4096 30. Apr 13:44 .
By the way I found that severe problem processing the archive
"git-manpages-2.8.2.tar.gz".
Is that the expected behaviour or simply a wrong usage of tar respectively
the option "--one-top-level" or is that a bug?
Regards
Jens
