Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > 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::.
I experimentally determined that --no-overwrite-dir has no effect but that --skip-old-files does what we need: ownership and permissions on /var and /root are preserved, and files are extracted correctly in those directories. Hence 8c3a5d7. Thanks, Ludo’.
