Re: [Bug-cpio] owner and sticky bit problem

[Ladislav Michnovič]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Bernd Kloss <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Albert Y. C. Lai:
>> Bernd Kloss wrote:
>> > The following problems occurred:
>> >
>> > For /tmp and /var/tmp the sticky bit is not being copied.
>> >
>> > All the homes belong to root:root with 755 instead of user:users.
>>
>> Hi, several months ago I ran into this too. (And it's known before
>> that.) To work around, omit "-depth" in your find command; this loses
>> timestamps of directories but sets bits right (if directories are
>> created new during unpacking).
>>
>> (For reference,
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2008-04/threads.html#00000
>> )
>>
>>
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> Thank you! Working fine now.
>
> Will they fix that bug?


Have you tried the latest cvs version?
There are lot of fixes since version 2.9.
 Regards Ladislav.