Re: 2.0.0.11-g1-i386 other miscellaneous

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

address@hidden writes:

> minor observations:
>
> 1. The build identifier on the downloaded 2.0.0.11-g1-i386 shows BonEcho
> instead of IceCat. See "about:" output.
>
> The 2.0.0.10-g1-1386 version shows
> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10)
> Gecko/0000000000 IceCat/2.0.0.10-g1
>
> but the 2.0.0.11-g1-i386 version shows
> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11)
> Gecko/0000000000 BonEcho/2.0.0.11-g1
Strange that it is changed, I will take a look at it.

> 2.  The icecat script in the unpacked downloaded 2.0.0.11-g1-i386 tarball has
> 700 permissions rather than 755. (addressed with the mozilla.in file
> change mentioned in previous post)
>
> 3.  Is there a way to pack the tarball so that when extracted, it has root
> ownership or is this considered standard?   Currently the unpacked
> tarball defaults to my user.group ownership even though unpacking with
> su permissions.  This is also the case for the earlier
> iceweasel-g2-i386 & icecat-2.0.0.10-g1-i386 tarballs.
Ownership of files is specified when the tar package is created.  I
don't see any problem if it is root or if it is another user, you can
always change it.
To specify root:root as the owner, use the --group and --owner options
to tar.

Thanks,
Giuseppe