Hi James, On 03/21/2011 01:41 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:42:40PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >>> 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'.
> The attached patch amends the first one by adding a test for hidden > files and extending the glob pattern to include those if it finds any. > It's not the neatest way to go about this, but the alternatives I've > come up with are even less pleasant. any news on this? Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
