> To be honest, I have been thinking about this, yes a patch to tar is > what I would support as well. Call it "disttar" make it force the > permissions to be what they should while unpacking and packing. > > This would really make sense. > mike
I should have known better. GNU did not put silly restrictions in their app. I looked into it, and tar actually supports --owner <uid> and --group <gid>. They're just not documented on the man page. And permissions are not a problem, you are always allowed to set any permissions you like without being root. The only problem is special nodes, but that is probably a rare enough problem to allow for using silly hacks. ;-) /Clacke
