Re: [Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

2008-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:55:49PM -0800, Alon Altman wrote: Another option (poor man's fakeroot) is to write a script that uses 'find' to create a script that restores the permissions. Poor man's rpm, actually. fakeroot forgets things eventualy. But what about other archivers? Any archiver

[Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

2008-02-06 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use my DoK for various things which are sensitive to the executable (chmod +/-x) bit. As I want to be able to use this DoK on Windows systems as well, it's formatted to VFAT (NTFS is also an option, thanks to ntfs-3g). Is there any way to get any form of simulated

Re: [Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

2008-02-06 Thread Ohad Lutzky
Looking for a simpler solution (although UMSDOS, upon re-reading, seems to do exactly what I wanted, but is discontinued), here's an alternative problem to solve: What I *REALLY* want to do is use my DoK to synchronize two computers, when one of them has very poor upstream (otherwise I'd use the

Re: [Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

2008-02-06 Thread Shachar Raindel
Try using gzip in 'rsync' mode ( --rsyncable flag at least in my ubuntu). This is the best of both worlds - both compression and works great with rsync. Be aware that rsync reads the entire file in the destination as well as the source, so it might be faster to do write like cp sync.tar.bz2