Re: [Bug-tar] ACL support in git version of GNU tar

[Markus Steinborn]

Joerg Schilling schrieb:
> Markus Steinborn <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > (2a) tar archive creation without "--numeric-owner" option:
> >
> > In GNU tar 1.26, for every file the owner is stored both, symbolic and
> > numeric. I would expect that ACLs are stored in both ways, too. star
> > shows us how to do that:
> >
> > star stores the numeric owner in a forth field of an acl: (e.g.
> > "u:msteinbo:rwx:500").
> Correct, this is an extension to the ACL format that was needed to allow ACLs
> to be archivable in a reliable way at all.
Well, I have to notice that this is not fixed before release of an ACL 
anbeled tar. So every tar archive created with GNU tar 1.27 does not 
store ACLs in a reliable way.

Expect bug reports what that breaks... I would expect to break 
everything with numeric owner option.


Greetungs from Germany

Markus Steinborn
GNU gv maintainer


PS: Not good - now I've got to fix tar myself to have a usable tar 
again...  Good luck there are GPL-Codes I can copy extracts from.