Steve Kemp wrote:
I think your suggestion of using "--numeric-owner" makes a lot of sense, and to be honest I can't think of this package being used upon a non-GNU system, so adding it unconditionally makes a lot of sense.
maybe the best would be to specify an archive command in the configuration file (with arguments and at least one special character to tell where the filename should be). This would permit the use of other tools such as star (ACL support), or even enabling the possibility to read directly the files from the standard input (and so beeing able to use tar over ssh or other neat tricks)
However, --numeric-owner would be sufficient for now ;) Regards, -- Clement Hermann (nodens) - "L'air pur ? c'est pas en RL, ça ? c'est pas hors charte ?" Jean in L'Histoire des Pingouins, http://tnemeth.free.fr/fmbl/linuxsf/ Vous trouverez ma clef publique sur le serveur public pgp.mit.edu. Please find my public key on the public keyserver pgp.mit.edu.
