Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions

[David Brown]

> Sorry for my sleepy advise.
>
> sudo umask 022
> sudo tar jxf linux-2.6.14.1.tar.bz2 --no-same-permissions
> ls -l linux-2.6.14.1
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 18693 Nov  8 20:22 COPYING
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 89223 Nov  8 20:22 CREDITS
> drwxr-xr-x  53 root root  5208 Nov  8 20:22 Documentation
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1258 Nov  8 20:22 Kbuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 60997 Nov  8 20:22 MAINTAINERS
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 43534 Nov  8 20:22 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 14755 Nov  8 20:22 README
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3065 Nov  8 20:22 REPORTING-BUGS
> drwxr-xr-x  26 root root   632 Nov  8 20:22 arch
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   968 Nov  8 20:22 crypto
> drwxr-xr-x  22 root root   600 Nov 26 23:50 drivers
> [snip]

Aha, that option isn't in man page for tar but it is in the info page
for it... odd

Thanks, but I'd still like to know why the tarball isn't goinb to be
fixed on the main site.

- David Brown
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