reset owner/group to root for distutils tarballs

[till]

BPO	6516
Nosy	@akuchling, @jaraco, @ncoghlan, @tarekziade
Dependencies	bpo-6856: allow setting uid and gid when creating tar files
Files	unnamed 3.4-patch.txt

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closed_at = <Date 2013-11-15.18:08:00.964>
created_at = <Date 2009-07-18.16:14:57.845>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'reset owner/group to root for distutils tarballs'
updated_at = <Date 2013-12-30.21:09:26.972>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/till'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue6516'
versions = ['Python 3.4']

[till]

Please allow to create tarballs with owner/group of files be set to root.

One possible fix is to change cmd in distutils/archive_util.py to this:

cmd = ["tar", "-cf", archive_name, "--owner=root", "--group=root", base_dir]

[tarekziade]

what would be the use case for that ?

[till]

I want to create uniform tarballs, independent of which username was
used to create the tarball.

[tarekziade]

We can add two options to the commands that create tarballs:

• owner
• group

but we first need to add this capacity to the tarfile module because
right now the API doesn't allow you to add files with custom uid and gid.

I am going to add another issue with a proposal for this.

[tarekziade]

bpo-6856 created.

[tarekziade]

bpo-6856 was added by Lars, so I can move forward and work on this one.

[tarekziade]

done in r75192 and r75194. Thanks Till !

[bheemesh]

Hello Tarek,

done in r75192 and r75194. Thanks Till !

Can you please tell me how to get this correction into use?

[bheemesh]

I just took download of the latest python 2.6.3 which was updated on 2nd
OCT 09, and found that while tarball creation everything looks OK, but
when we un-tar the archive the permissions goes back to the current user
logged in. Can this be set to the user mentioned while archive was created?

[tarekziade]

Hi Bheemesh,

This is a new feature, so it was added in the current trunk that will
become 2.7 and 3.2.

So unfortunately, you can't have it in any 2.6 release.

A workaround is to create your own sdist command, that includes the
changes made in 2.7.

[bheemesh]

HI Tarek,

Thanks very much for a quick reply here.
since i am new to this , can you help me with sdist command to have the
latest changes?

Best Regards,
Bheemesh

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Tarek Ziadé <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> added the comment:

Hi Bheemesh,

This is a new feature, so it was added in the current trunk that will
become 2.7 and 3.2.

So unfortunately, you can't have it in any 2.6 release.

A workaround is to create your own sdist command, that includes the
changes made in 2.7.

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