Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
>> > Could these directories be left out of the tarball and only their
>> > contents be kept in?
>> No. Maybe we can fix it by using two tar invocations with different
>> --owner.
>
> Well, you never know what permissions the directories have on the target
> machine, and these are also changed. Maybe one needs to untar with particular
> options.
I looked in the GNU tar manual, and found this:
`--no-overwrite-dir'
Preserve metadata of existing directories when extracting files
from an archive. *Note Overwrite Old Files::.
This might be exactly what we need.
Mark
