On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:40:50PM -0400, Naram Qashat wrote: > I have a folder outside /usr/ports that is not owned by root that I store > ports > I am making edits on, and whenever I use 'make extract' on any port within > that > folder while I am root, none of the permissions from the tarball it extracted > from are kept. For example, a configure script that is set to mode 0755 will > be > extracted as mode 0644, removing the execute flag. I don't recall when this > started happening, as it used to work. I saw nothing in the flags used to > extract that could be changed. Manually extracting by running the commands > myself fails as well. When I ran it manually, I tried to add -p to tar's > flags, > but that still resulted in the execute flag being removed. I'm not sure > what's > going on with this, but I do know it works fine within /usr/ports. Any help > on > the matter is appreciated.
What type of file system are these ports on? What are mount parameters used to mount it? Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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