Opened 20 years ago

Closed 20 years ago

#2840 closed defect (fixed)

portextract.tcl preserves bogus file owner when untarring

Reported by: mike@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

Trying to install a port as the root user cause the dist files to be extracted with potentially bogus file owner permissions. This cause the patch phase to fail if any files need to be patched (at least running under MacOS 10.4 (Tiger beta)).

Changing the line in portextract.tcl:

default extract.post_args {{| tar -xf -}}

to default extract.post_args {{| tar --no-same-owner -xf -}}

fixes the problem

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 20 years ago by mww@…

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
Summary: portextract.tcl preserves bogus file owner when untarring portextract.tcl preserves bogus file owner when untarring

thanks - good idea! commited;

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