Hi Behdad,
unfortunately I'm still not fully through. I hate to send replies in
bits, but it's also bad if the delay is unnecessarily long. So here
we go with more bits:
* Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:14:46PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:22:54AM CEST:
> >> Also may be a good idea to instruct tar to not record uid of the user
> >> making
> >> the tarball?
> >
> > Is there any way of doing that portably? Otherwise, the only choice I
> > see is to factorize and do it for GNU tar only.
>
> Not that I know of. I can't even find how to do that with GNU tar.
--owner=0 --group=0
You could make a custom rule and exploit TAR_OPTIONS:
my-dist:
env TAR_OPTIONS="--owner=0 --group=0" $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) dist
> But
> making tar understand some env var like the GZIP=--best automake already does
> sounds easy enough, even if it only produces results in a few years. :)
You can override AMTAR (used by automake's rule for the v7 format), but
TAR_OPTIONS has been part of GNU tar's interface since Ocrober 2000.
Haven't looked at the rest yet, sorry.
Cheers,
Ralf
