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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix binary tarball
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:53:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twvdcjwk.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150515173748.GA15397@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 15 May 2015 19:37:48 +0200")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-16  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15 16:46 Guix binary tarball Andreas Enge
2015-05-15 17:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-15 17:37   ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-15 19:45     ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-05-16 18:55       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-16  2:53     ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-05-17 21:34       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-16  6:47   ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-16 18:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-17 22:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-17 22:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-18 11:34       ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-18 19:38         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-19 23:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-20  8:10   ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-20 10:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-20 19:12     ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-21  8:16       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-07 12:39 ` Thomas Schwinge
2015-06-07 13:16   ` /run/current-system (was: Guix binary tarball) Thomas Schwinge
2015-06-07 16:19     ` /run/current-system Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-07 16:14   ` Guix binary tarball Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-08  9:34     ` Alex Kost
2015-06-08 21:33       ` Ludovic Courtès

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