Re: tar usage in pkgsrc

[Hasso Tepper <hasso%estpak.ee@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> I think those cases should be handled specially.
> geda-examples for example already resets ownership.

As developer I'd prefer this of course, but ... 

> The alternative would be to provide a mode/owner unpreserving tar via 
> USE_TOOLS, which does TRT depending on the platform, falling back to 
> pax/bsdtar if the platform doesn't have that.

... as pkgsrc/DragonFly developer I'd prefer this. I really don't want to 
deal with these issues in general because "it works on NetBSD". I have 
enough DragonFly specific issues in my queue ;).


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