Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin
> > To be honest, I have been thinking about this, yes a patch to tar
> is
> > what I would support as well. Call it "disttar" make it force the
> > permissions to be what they should while unpacking and packing.
> >
> > This would really make sense.
> > mike
>
> I should have known better. GNU did not put silly restrictions in
> their
> app. I looked into it, and tar actually supports --owner <uid> and
> --group <gid>. They're just not documented on the man page. And
> permissions are not a problem, you are always allowed to set any
> permissions you like without being root. The only problem is special
> nodes, but that is probably a rare enough problem to allow for using
> silly hacks. ;-)
>
Great!
By special nodes, you mean symlinks?
So for cygwin, this should be solution?
mike
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