On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Maybe putting "o" into the options in doc/Makefile is a good
> idea.
I wonder why we have tarballs inside of tarballs. Why not just have
the files directly in a subdirectory of the install tarball already?
> I'm wondering why we've not had complaints before, though.
On a local filesystem tar will happily restore the user even if
there's no userid 258 in /etc/passwd. Presumably the file we
eventually install does get the right owner along the way anyways.
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greg
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