cygport: Request a new feature in order to set owner/group names in packaged tarballs.

ASSI Stromeko@nexgo.de
Sat Aug 8 04:32:06 GMT 2020


Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes:
> But I feel uneasy about the usase of CYGPORT_TAR_CMD, because we must
> specify 'tar' in it. It is a redundancy.

It is also a way to do nefarious things, but there are already many
more such places.

> The following is a thought experiment to avoid this redundancy.
[…]

As I said, you'll end up with configuration variables for everything
except the actual command (which is found in PATH, so if I really wanted
to mess with it I could do that anyway).


Regards,
Achim.
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