--- Paul Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Claes Wallin wrote: > > >>> I looked into it, and tar actually supports --owner <uid> and > >>> --group <gid>. They're just not documented on the man page. And > >> > > > > No, symlinks are fine. I was referring to device nodes. But in > cygwin's > > case, they're not interesting anyway, so.. yeah. Rebuild the > scripts to > > use tar's --owner and --group switches, and you can get rid of > > fakeroot. > > Files are not necessarily owned by root or under the group of root. > They may need to be under the www-data user, mysql user, or games > group, or utmp group, or other things of that sort. And most likely > it > is specific to each file, not the whole archive as a whole. Unless > you > can use --owner and --group to specify the permissions for each > individual file, it doesn't solve the problem either.
You can extract idividual files with tar, I imagine that you can set the bits as they go. The adding of files is easier, and I can imagine the ids can be set and stored as well. I can imagine a simple tool to dump out the permissions of a tar file and read them back in. In any case, less work than getting fakeroot runnning. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
