Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin

On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Claes Wallin wrote:

>>> I looked into it, and tar actually supports --owner <uid> and
>>> --group <gid>. They're just not documented on the man page. And
>>
>
> No, symlinks are fine. I was referring to device nodes. But in cygwin's
> case, they're not interesting anyway, so.. yeah. Rebuild the scripts to
> use tar's --owner and --group switches, and you can get rid of 
> fakeroot.

Files are not necessarily owned by root or under the group of root. 
They may need to be under the www-data user, mysql user, or games 
group, or utmp group, or other things of that sort. And most likely it 
is specific to each file, not the whole archive as a whole. Unless you 
can use --owner and --group to specify the permissions for each 
individual file, it doesn't solve the problem either.

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