On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, sorry. 0. It has a default which is opposite of gnu tar. > >>If it's that easy, I can go patch CPAN.pm right away.
Done: CPAN.pm is patched in trunk. > And CPANPLUS I guess. I'm not sure what else happens in > Archive::Extract and whatever other code is involved, I've only dug > deep enough to determine that shlomi's problem is caused by something > other than gnu tar. It looks like Archive::Extract attempts to do the right thing, but sets the wrong variable: local $Archive::Tar::Constant::CHOWN = 0; I'll file a bug report on RT. > And are there other tar programs? .zip? -- David
