On Oct 9, 2011, at 4:43 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> ---
> [...]
>> Since debian/rules install is run as root, the default is for tar to
>> act as thought --preserve-permissions were passed
>
> I should have said: "when 'make install' is run as root, ...".
>
> Typically people building git for private use would run "make install"
> as root when installing to /usr/local, but as an unprivileged user
> when installing to $HOME. The RPM packaging runs "make install"
> without special privileges and the Debian packaging runs it as (fake)
> root, iirc.
>
> Sorry for the lack of clarity.
thanks. I agree that the tar is overkill. I think I copied that snippet from templates/makefile. does that have the same bug?
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