On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, John Conover wrote: > That's true, Don, but the issue is the ownership of the DIRECTORIES > when installing, a directory TREE in a non root temporary directory. > The file ownerships are, indeed, correct. The ownerships of the > directories down to the files are always root/root.
% fakeroot bash -c 'mkdir -p foo/bar; chown 8:8 .; chown 9:9 foo; chown 10:10 foo/bar; ls -la foo; tar -zvvtf bar.tar.gz; tar -zcf bar.tar.gz foo; rmdir -p foo/bar; tar -zxf bar.tar.gz; ls -la foo; rmdir -p foo/bar;'; total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Nov 8 11:07 . drwxr-xr-x 7 mail mail 4096 Nov 8 11:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Nov 8 11:07 bar drwxr-xr-x news/root 0 2014-11-08 11:07 foo/ drwxr-xr-x uucp/root 0 2014-11-08 11:07 foo/bar/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Nov 8 11:07 . drwxr-xr-x 7 mail mail 4096 Nov 8 11:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Nov 8 11:07 bar It would be helpful if you provided a self-contained example like this which showed the behavior you are seeing. It would also be useful to see the output of env|grep -i TAR; the output of tar --version; and the output of dpkg -l tar;. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141108191008.gu29...@teltox.donarmstrong.com