Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions | Date | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:51:21 +0000 |
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On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:46, Nish Aravamudan wrote: [snip] > > > > Sure enough, I can confirm this. > > > > I don't seem to have to provide --no-same-permissions to tar to get umask > > to affect the permissions of extracted files, so my files are fine > > on-disc. > > FWIW, ubuntu's man-pages claim: > > " --no-same-permissions > apply umask to extracted files (the default for non-root > users)" > > and > > " -p, --same-permissions, --preserve-permissions > ignore umask when extracting files (the default for root)" > > Maybe you are untarring as non-root and David is untarring as root? >
Thanks Nish, this is obviously the difference. I never compile anything as root (pesky Makefiles rm -rf'ing things!).
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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