On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco@osl.iu.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Beman Dawes wrote:
... The tar being used is tar (GNU tar) 1.25 Packaged by Cygwin (1.25-1)
The command used is:
tar cfz %1.tar.gz %1
I'm not a regular tar user, so would need advice on how to solve the problem. I don't even know what a GID is.
There are --owner=n and --group=n flags to GNU tar for creating archives; the info page suggests that both are often set to 0, which should fix the problem.
The --help message says: --group=NAME force NAME as group for added files --owner=NAME force NAME as owner for added files so is --numeric-owner also required? --numeric-owner always use numbers for user/group names --Beman