Re: Changes in the way tar(1) constructs directory permissions
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, John Conover wrote:
> and look at the ownership of the cups directory and compare it to the
> ownership in /etc.
In this example, you're not archiving etc/cups or etc, you're just
archiving etc/cups/printers.conf, which means that tar must create
etc/cups itself, and has no record of what the original permissions of
etc/cups were.
I've verified that this behaves the same way in 1.23-3 and 1.26+dfsg-0.1
as it does in 1.27-1.
If you want to keep the permissions of etc/cups, then you want:
sudo bash -c 'tar -C / --no-recursion -cvf xxx.tar.gz etc/cups/printers.conf etc/cups; tar -vtf xxx.tar.gz; tar -vxf xxx.tar.gz; ls -lR etc;'
> for some details, where it would seem that the behavior is
> acceptable-at issue is that it changed between the last versions of
> Linux, and the newer.
I have no idea what you mean by "last versions of Linux". The output of
dpkg -l tar; or tar --version; will tell us what version(s) of tar
you're using.
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