On Friday 24 August 2001 21:45, George Petri wrote:
> If I am going to be distributing software, who should own the files in
> tar.gz's or tar.bz2's?
>
> I have noticed things ranging from root.root, nobody.nobody, user.500 to
> kevin.kevin.  What should it be?  Does it really matter?
>
> Can I just get tar or gzip to not store any ownership info at all?
>
> All help is appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> George
>

It doesn't matter because the install routine will recast the ownership anyway.

Civileme

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>
> "9:52pm  up 25 min   2 users,  load average: 27.65, 51.29, 28.79"
>              (now loading 40 khexedit's on a Pentium II...)

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