Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:

>  Sergey> able to produce correct 'ustar' archives. Whatever
>  Sergey> options you give to previous versions of GNU tar, the
>  Sergey> produced archives will deviate from the standard.
> 
> Ouch!  Is that a `will always deviate' or a `can deviate in some
> conditions (like -o does)'?

It is "will always deviate".

> So as I sees it the question is: in this conditions, will
> old-GNU-tar-without-o deviate more from ustar than
> old-GNU-tar-with-o deviates from V7?

The "distance" between the produced archive and the required
format will be almost the same in both cases. The main difference
when using -o is that archives produced with this option do not
contain symbolic ownership information (usernames/group names).

Regards,
Sergey