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]

what would be the use case for that ?

I want to create uniform tarballs, independent of which username was
used to create the tarball.

We can add two options to the commands that create tarballs:

- owner
- group
 

but we first need to add this capacity to the tarfile module because
right now the API doesn't allow you to add files with custom uid and gid.

I am going to add another issue with a proposal for this.

#6856 created.

#6856 was added by Lars, so I can move forward and work on this one.

done in r75192 and r75194. Thanks Till !

Hello Tarek,

done in r75192 and r75194. Thanks Till !

Can you please tell me how to get this correction into use?

I just took download of the latest python 2.6.3 which was updated on 2nd
OCT 09, and found that while tarball creation everything looks OK, but
when we un-tar the archive the permissions goes back to the current user
logged in. Can this be set to the user mentioned while archive was created?

Hi Bheemesh,

This is a new feature, so it was added in the current trunk that will
become 2.7 and 3.2.

So unfortunately, you can't have it in any 2.6 release.

A workaround is to create your own sdist command, that includes the
changes made in 2.7.

HI Tarek,

Thanks very much for a quick reply here.
since i am new to this , can you help me with sdist command to have the
latest changes?

Best Regards,
Bheemesh

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Tarek Ziadé <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Hi Bheemesh,
>
> This is a new feature, so it was added in the current trunk that will
> become 2.7 and 3.2.
>
> So unfortunately, you can't have it in any 2.6 release.
>
> A workaround is to create your own sdist command, that includes the
> changes made in 2.7.
>
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This change was rolled back before the release of 3.2, so only exists in 2.7. See issue19544 for details.

Here's an updated patch, to be applied against the default branch.

Patch looks good to me.

New changeset b9c9c4b2effe by Andrew Kuchling in branch 'default':
Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group parameters to sdist command as found in Python 2.7 and originally slated for Python 3.2 but accidentally rolled back as part of the distutils2 rollback. Closes Issue #6516.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b9c9c4b2effe

New changeset b08868fd5994 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: quick workaround for failing builds
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b08868fd5994

New changeset 015463176d2e by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
Issue #19544, #6516: no need to catch AttributeError on import pwd/grp
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/015463176d2e

New changeset 83f12a9593db by Zachary Ware in branch 'default':
Issue #19544, #6516: check ZLIB_SUPPORT, not zlib (which might not be bound)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/83f12a9593db

New changeset 2a872126f4a1 by Zachary Ware in branch 'default':
Issue #19544, #6516: check ZLIB_SUPPORT, not zlib (which might not be bound)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2a872126f4a1