On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> ajmcello <ajmcell...@gmail.com> writes: > > # make > > make -C doc all > > make[1]: Entering directory `/nfs/fsp1/web/postgresql-8.3.7/doc' > > gzip -d -c man.tar.gz | /bin/tar xf - > > /bin/tar: man1/clusterdb.1: Cannot change ownership to uid 258, gid 258: > > Invalid argument > > /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > make[1]: *** [manl/.timestamp] Error 2 > > Hmm, that is *not* about unpacking the source tarball as I first thought > --- it's about unpacking the documentation sub-tarballs. Which is > something that people are quite likely to try to do as root, > particularly for the html tarball which is unpacked only in the install > step. Maybe putting "o" into the options in doc/Makefile is a good > idea. I'm wondering why we've not had complaints before, though. > > BTW, why are there uses of both "tar" and "$(TAR)" in there? > > regards, tom lane Oh, yeah I see that now it uses both. I sent a report to the tar group, maybe its something they can fix. I got that error when both unpacking the source tarball and within the doc directory. Everything seems to work fine by hand, chown, chgrp, etc..Maybe its a system call issue with tar, though it all worked fine in NFSv3 which does not use an ID mapper daemon. I guess not too many people are using NFSv4 (I had to specify nfs4 in fstab, its turned off by default in Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty). Maybe I should go back to 3... The only downside with adding o to tar that I can see is if it isn't supported by a non-GNU version of tar.
