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Date:      Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:40:50 -0400
From:      Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Odd issue with 'make extract' in a directory outside /usr/ports
Message-ID:  <489A60B2.9080205@cyberbotx.com>

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I have a folder outside /usr/ports that is not owned by root that I store ports 
I am making edits on, and whenever I use 'make extract' on any port within that 
folder while I am root, none of the permissions from the tarball it extracted 
from are kept.  For example, a configure script that is set to mode 0755 will be 
extracted as mode 0644, removing the execute flag.  I don't recall when this 
started happening, as it used to work.  I saw nothing in the flags used to 
extract that could be changed.  Manually extracting by running the commands 
myself fails as well.  When I ran it manually, I tried to add -p to tar's flags, 
but that still resulted in the execute flag being removed.  I'm not sure what's 
going on with this, but I do know it works fine within /usr/ports.  Any help on 
the matter is appreciated.

Thanks,
Naram Qashat



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