Re: Guix binary tarball

[Mark H Weaver]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

>> > Could these directories be left out of the tarball and only their
>> > contents be kept in?
>> No.  Maybe we can fix it by using two tar invocations with different
>> --owner.
>
> Well, you never know what permissions the directories have on the target
> machine, and these are also changed. Maybe one needs to untar with particular
> options.

I looked in the GNU tar manual, and found this:

`--no-overwrite-dir'
     Preserve metadata of existing directories when extracting files
     from an archive.  *Note Overwrite Old Files::.

This might be exactly what we need.

      Mark