"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> > ... something that I'm working hard to fully remove. Requiring a
> > build as uid 0 has long since past its use-by date.
> >   
>
> With smarter archiving tools, we wouldn't need it.  (Actually, I 

Star is e.g. able to read a file with a similar syntax as the "prototype" file 
from SVr4 packages.

If you would pass the "f" and "d" type lines with the first two columns removed 
into

        star -c pkglist=name -Hcpio > out

star would take user/group and permissin from the prototype information.

J?rg

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