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Author till
Recipients tarek, till
Date 2009-07-18.16:14:57
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Please allow to create tarballs with owner/group of files be set to root.

One possible fix is to change cmd in distutils/archive_util.py to this:

cmd = ["tar", "-cf", archive_name, "--owner=root", "--group=root", base_dir]
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