Santiago Vila: > Including MSWIN and OS/2 specific stuff in a Debian source tarball > should not be a problem.
Well, the packages structure are different on the different platforms, and also my MSWIN/OS2 source packages also contain binaries, plus that the source is CRLF formatted there, and that I convert the documentation files from iso-8859-1 to cp437 for those (originally I did it the other way round, since the program was initially written on OS/2). Also, my CVS directory structure does not correspond to 100% to what I distribute. > A local user is allowed to own files inside a source tarball, there is > no requirement that the files are owned by root.root I know that, the problem is that when you untar a file with files owned by non-root, that *numerical* id owns the files you just untared. That is what I am trying to ignore. Tar is really too "smart" for my archives... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
