From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Guix binary tarball Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87twvdcjwk.fsf@netris.org> References: <20150515164602.GA13539@debian> <87382xwyoz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150515173748.GA15397@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtSEj-0002FN-6U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 22:54:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtSEe-000597-6g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 22:54:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150515173748.GA15397@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 15 May 2015 19:37:48 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: >> > Could these directories be left out of the tarball and only their >> > contents be kept in? >> No. Maybe we can fix it by using two tar invocations with different >> --owner. > > Well, you never know what permissions the directories have on the target > machine, and these are also changed. Maybe one needs to untar with particular > options. I looked in the GNU tar manual, and found this: `--no-overwrite-dir' Preserve metadata of existing directories when extracting files from an archive. *Note Overwrite Old Files::. This might be exactly what we need. Mark