On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:42:40PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > When repacking ZIP files, because of the way uscan invokes tar, the > current directory '.' (dot) is always included in the resulting tar > archive.
We do that to ensure that everything unpacked from the zip file is included in the resulting tar file (e.g., a hidden file at the top-level of the unpacked tree). > Unpacking such an archive has the side effect of tar attempting to > change the permissions of the cwd, as easily reproduced by unpacking > such a tarball from within the /tmp directory. Regular users get an > error, root has the permissions of /tmp changed. > > Another minor issue is that the user and group name are leaked into the > archive, instead of using the neutral 'root'. These are issues, though. Instead of your suggested solution for the first one, I think using tar's --transform argument to remove the leading ./ may be cleaner. The fix for the second issue looks good. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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