Rainer Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * The files and directories in the SUNWonbld packages distributed on
>   opensolaris.org belong to a non-system uid (stevenl/staff if viewed with
>   GNU tar), which is ugly if you extract them somewhere as root.  I think
>   they should use cpiotranslate as well to only use system uids and gids.

I a not sure whether this is relevent, note that this is a package that
later uses it's own rules for the permissions and owners.

In any case, for tar archives the bes way to deal with this case is to use:

star -c f=arname.tar -find dirname -chown root -chgrp root



> * At one time, I had to abort nightly with ^C.  Unfortunately, the
>   sub-dmakes ignored this an ran along happily.  It took me some effort to
>   kill off the whole bunch ;-(

This is interesting. Are you using bash at some important place here?

Jörg

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