From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:17:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner
Message-ID: <20091024091758.GF4615@mx.loc>
In-Reply-To: <7vocnxajj6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:25:24PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>>On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:15:43PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>>>GNU tar-1.22 handles 'o' as no-same-owner only on extract,
>>>>on create, 'o' would be --old-archive.
>>>
>>>FYI this was prompted by:
>>>
>>>Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>diff -rdup git-1.6.5.oorig/templates/Makefile git-1.6.5/templates/Makefile
>>>--- git-1.6.5.oorig/templates/Makefile	2009-10-11 03:42:04.000000000 +0200
>>>+++ git-1.6.5/templates/Makefile	2009-10-23 21:43:06.000000000 +0200
>>>@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@ clean:
>>> install: all
>>> 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_instdir_SQ)'
>>> 	(cd blt && $(TAR) cf - .) | \
>>>-	(cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_instdir_SQ)' && umask 022 && $(TAR) xfo -)
>>>+	(cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_instdir_SQ)' && umask 022 && $(TAR) x --no-numeric-owner -f -)
>>
>> argh, sorry! --no-same-owner of course.
>
>Either way, your change would break non-GNU tar implementations that are
>properly POSIX.1, isn't it?

I suppose xf - -o would work?