RE: [gnet-dev] Letting gnet-1.1.8 and gnet-2.0.1RPM packages coexist

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 bas mevissen hetnet nl wrote:
> AFAIK, tarballs of this kind are always packed with uid,gid=0,0. If a
> mortal user tries to unpack it, it silently uses the uid,gid from the
> user. If a tarball is extracted by root, then the uid,gid within the
> tarball is used.
>
> One good example of how it should NOT be done is the linux kernel:
> numerous different uid,gid are used :-)

I did't find any other projects that set perms to root.root in the tarball
and I don't know of any easy way to do it.  Automake's dist target doesn't
do it.  But, 'make install' *should* set the permissions correctly.

There's some discussion on this here:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2000-11/msg00011.html

David


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