On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:41:54AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Modified files: > > usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib url.c > > Log: > > Invoke tar(1) with the -p option when installing a package > > from an URL (i.e., do it the same way as when installing > > from a file). This fixes the lossage of the setuid bits. > > It wasn't a problem before because GNU tar(1) implied the > > -p option for root, but BSD tar(1) doesn't do that. > > Hmmm... This might actually be considered a bsdtar bug. > I'll look into it. > That behavior of BSD tar(1) surprised me, to be honest.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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