Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner

From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:25:24 +0200

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 <[email-masked]>

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 -)

Someone should try to ask the git people not to rely on getopt
permuting options.. xof would be gentle to folks who don't want
to turn on getopt_long though.

cheers,