Don Armstrong writes: > 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. >
su cd / tar cvf xxx.tar etc/cups/printers.conf cd tar xvf /xxx.tar ls -al etc and look at the ownership of the cups directory and compare it to the ownership in /etc. This is a changed behavior in tar(1), (at least from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which I just verified.) Note that it only happens when when tar'ing file names in a directory, and not the directory itself, (tar cvf xxx.tar etc/cups, and restoring, everything has the correct ownership/permissions.) See, also: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Directory-Modification-Times-and-Permissions.html for some details, where it would seem that the behavior is acceptable-at issue is that it changed between the last versions of Linux, and the newer. Thanks, Don, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ -- 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/20141108194012.9306.qm...@rahul.net