Thanks for the bug report. I installed the following slightly-different patch.
>From 66402620af6a2c53ce7097a3b433d0f70284ec60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:56:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix permissions-assumption bug in test * tests/owner.at: Don't assume umask is 022. Reported by Pavel Raiskup in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-06/msg00015.html>. --- tests/owner.at | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/owner.at b/tests/owner.at index 799bd43..e2ccc32 100644 --- a/tests/owner.at +++ b/tests/owner.at @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ genfile --file a tar --owner="Joe the Plumber:1234" \ --group="Plumber's Union:5678" \ --mtime='@0' \ + --mode='u=rw,go=r' \ -cf arc a tar -tvf arc -- 1.7.6.5
