Re: tar usage in pkgsrc

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:14:01PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:11:43AM +0200, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> > > The alternative would be to provide a mode/owner unpreserving tar via 
> > > USE_TOOLS, which does TRT depending on the platform, falling back to 
> > > pax/bsdtar if the platform doesn't have that.
> > 
> > ... as pkgsrc/DragonFly developer I'd prefer this. I really don't want to 
> > deal with these issues in general because "it works on NetBSD". I have 
> > enough DragonFly specific issues in my queue ;).
> 
> Me too. Anyone having a good suggestion how to name such a tool?
> securing-tar sounds bad :)
> 
> Basically, this is a tool to extract tarballs, but resetting ownership
> and permissions to default values (based on umask).

Isn't that called 'not being root' ??

        David

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