New submission from Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: I am proposing this feature for an issue we have in Distutils: being able to set the uid/gid of files added in a tar archive using tarfile.
Here's what I am proposing: - adding two methods to TarInfo: set_uid and set_gid, that are able to take a user and group name *or* a uid and gid number - adding in TarFile a new filter option to add() called include. If given, it's a callable that receives the tarinfo object right before it's added, so its uid/gid can be tweaked. This callable must return the object. If it returns None, the object is not added to the tar file. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 92348 nosy: lars.gustaebel, tarek severity: normal status: open title: allow settong uid and gid when creating tar files type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6856> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
