On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:

# On 7 Apr 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
# 
# > ...you should be able to say "make" once
# > and have it produce a complete set of binaries without installing
# > anything....
# 
# Right. In fact, it should produce all of the install sets, with
# correct permissions and owners on everything in those tarfiles.
# There's no need to have root to produce that.

Is there some sort of uid mapping that goes on inside tar with which I'm 
not familiar?  Last I knew, it required one to be super-user in order
to make a setuid-anybody-else-besides-yourself binary.

# The install tools may be more difficult, though....


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