Re: BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts
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Msg-id 407d949e0906251819q3c1e8ee9vcfbf35a4a0a03511@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> =A0Maybe putting "o" into the options in doc/Makefile is a good
> idea.

I wonder why we have tarballs inside of tarballs. Why not just have
the files directly in a subdirectory of the install tarball already?

> I'm wondering why we've not had complaints before, though.

On a local filesystem tar will happily restore the user even if
there's no userid 258 in /etc/passwd. Presumably the file we
eventually install does get the right owner along the way anyways.

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greg
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