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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: file ownerships created by tar
From:       Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange () nsk ! no-ip ! org>
Date:       2006-12-28 1:13:02
Message-ID: 20061228011302.GA18092 () nsk ! no-ip ! org
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:34:09AM +0000, Chris Steel wrote:
> If I untar an archive (specifically
> applewmproto-X11R7.0-1.0.3.tar.bz2 from www.x.org)
> using busybox, then the files seem to keep their
> original owner and group (500 and 501 respectively).
> 
> When I untar the same archive on my Fedora system, all
> the files created are owned by the user who did the
> untar.
> 
> I'm assuming (?) that the second option is correct,
> and the first is wrong?

No. The second option happens when the user extracting the package
doesn't have permissions to set ownership of files to other users.

I assume you're untarring in busybox as root and as a non-root user in
Fedora. Try untarring as root in Fedora and you should see the same
behaviour as busybox.


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lfr
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