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Re: [Bug-tar] Failure with --owner and --group when names cannot be mapp
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Tim Kientzle |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Failure with --owner and --group when names cannot be mapped to IDs |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:45:43 -0700 |
On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 08/08/2011 03:28 AM, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
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>> Attached is a patch that allows archives to be created with
>> arbitrary owner or group names.
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> Thanks for the bug report and patch; I was unaware of the problem.
> This runs into another area that I'd been meaning to enhance for some
> time: tar doesn't let you specify both user name and number (only one
> or the other), and similarly for groups. I wrote and installed the
> following patch into GNU tar, to address both enhancement requests
> simultaneously.
FYI: bsdtar uses separate options: --uname and --uid for user
name/id, --gname and --gid for group name/id.
Tim