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Re: file permissions in latest tarball



On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
> Marcus, earlier this week I downloaded the latest tarball
> and lots of files and directories have the group id set to
> 1000, so forexample /info and 5-7 other toplevel directories
> has that group. Also X did complain about stange file owners.
> (yes, I did unpack using the --same-owner and zxvpf options)

What? That's awful. Thanks for letting me now (and I think I checked it!
I need to clean my glasses, obviously.) I will make a new tar file, then.

Thanks,
Marcus

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