owner and group in files and copy

[Christian Pearce]

Why does the owner or group get carried over to the next copy statement
executed?  I briefly looked at the code, it looks like it saves the uid
and gid.  So it was intentionally as far as I can tell.

I can't for the life of my figure out why we would want this.  I am
going to be forced to explicitly set ownership for every copy statement
I have.  Geehz!  Can someone explain why this is here?

There was the thought of having a template for copy statements

template:

        root_executable
                owner=root
                group=root
                mode=0755
                server=$(server)

copy:

        /var/tmp/somefile/
                dest=/var/tmp/somefile
                template=root_executable

This seems like a good idea.

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