In the last episode (Jun 06), Trevor Johnson said: > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several > > other lowel level dirs). The issue is under investigation. > > The latest version on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ is 1.13. The ones on > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ (and everything else on that site) are > considered unstable. I suppose it's too late to suggest tar 1.13 as a > starting point, but maybe this could be kept in mind when importing other > GNU products. Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are unusable, for example). -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo_at_FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the messageReceived on Fri Sep 24 2004 - 13:50:45 UTC
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