On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/08/2011 03:28 AM, Thayne Harbaugh wrote: > >> Attached is a patch that allows archives to be created with >> arbitrary owner or group names. > > Thanks for the bug report and patch; I was unaware of the problem. > This runs into another area that I'd been meaning to enhance for some > time: tar doesn't let you specify both user name and number (only one > or the other), and similarly for groups. I wrote and installed the > following patch into GNU tar, to address both enhancement requests > simultaneously.
FYI: bsdtar uses separate options: --uname and --uid for user name/id, --gname and --gid for group name/id. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
