cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib url.c

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Thu Mar 8 07:23:09 UTC 2007


Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>>> ... GNU tar(1) implied the
>>>> -p option for root, but BSD tar(1) doesn't do that.

Ah.  Here we are:

contrib/tar/src/extract.c, revision 1.2 (07-Jun-2002) by sobomax

+#ifndef __FreeBSD__
    same_permissions_option += we_are_root;
    same_owner_option += we_are_root;
+#endif

This disabled -p as the default for root in FreeBSD
builds of GNU tar.  This change was first released in
FreeBSD 4.7 as far as I can tell.

This does beg the question whether bsdtar should
follow FreeBSD GNU tar or FSF GNU tar?

Tim Kientzle



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