If you pack something using Solaris, then you unpack it with "Solaris" attributes. You can easily write a script that does what you need: unpacks, then sets the attributes to want.
On 12/6/05, Mark McWiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cygwin is installed as part of a proposed deployment solution that's > competing with MSI (*shudder*), > so it's indeed a Cygwin problem. The current archiver on the Unix > (Solaris) side happens to be > tar, but anything that could be packed under Solaris and unpacked with a > Cygwin command line > in such a way to preserve Windows ACLs is what is needed to help slay > the MSI dragon. > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Mark McWiggins wrote: > > > > > >>I'm working with a company that deploys tar files from Unix to Windows > >>where the Windows administrators set their directories up with various > >>ACLs. > >> > >>Cygwin's default TAR program destroys these ACLs when files are > >>unpacked into these directories. > >> > >>Is there a command-line program that can unpack a tar file in such a > >>way as to leave the ACLs alone? WinZip can do this, but its > >>command-line addon only handles ZIP files. > >> > >> > > > >Unless you really need to use cygwin for other things, it sounds very > >much like you are asking for a non-cygwin way to deal with tar files. > > > >This really isn't a list for discussing non-cygwin solutions to > >problems. I see that a google search for "tar windows" unearths quite a > >few options so you should be able to find some no-cygwin program which > >solves your problem fairly easily. > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Mark McWiggins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 425-369-8286 (home/cell/vm -- let ring) > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/