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Package: tar
Version: 1.15.1dfsg-3
Severity: normal
On the man page we see:
--no-same-owner
extract files with owner set to current user (the default for
non-root users)
OK, but what about group?
Say how one is to do --no-same-group, i.e., root wants the files
installed with the same owner and group as
# touch bla; ls -l bla
would show.
Wait, it seems --no-same-group accomplishes --no-same-group too.
OK, mention it!
(Maybe you do on the info page, but all I can see in Debian is the man page.)
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tag 367287 fixed
thanks
On Mon, 15 May 2006 06:11:39 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On the man page we see:
> --no-same-owner
> extract files with owner set to current user (the default for
> non-root users)
> OK, but what about group?
> Say how one is to do --no-same-group, i.e., root wants the files
> installed with the same owner and group as
> # touch bla; ls -l bla
> would show.
> Wait, it seems --no-same-group accomplishes --no-same-group too.
> OK, mention it!
> (Maybe you do on the info page, but all I can see in Debian is the man page.)
Hi Dan,
Thank you for the bug report. It really is appreciated.
And I'm glad you found that the --no-same-owner option does what you
want, (setting both user and group ownership to those of the current
process rather than what's in the archive).
As for the documentation of these options, the current Debian man page,
(which just comes directly from the tar --help code) has:
--same-owner try extracting files with the same ownership
--no-same-owner extract files as yourself
I think the documentation is assuming that one understands that
"ownership" and "yourself" applies to both the user and group ownership.
Do you think that's reasonable? I'll close this bug, and please feel
free to reopen it if you don't think so.
I do notice that neither of these documentation strings mention the
defaults, (--same-owner is the default for the superuser and
--no-same-owner is the default for ordinary users). I'll send a patch to
fix that to upstream now.
-Carl
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