Commit 56dd7681 authored by Seblu's avatar Seblu
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add a comment about python upstream bug

parent 89ded707

installsystems/tarball.py

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@@ -58,12 +58,14 @@ class Tarball(tarfile.TarFile): 


    def chown(self, tarinfo, targetpath):

        '''

        Overide real chown method from tarfile which make crazy check about

        Override real chown method from tarfile which make crazy check about

        uid/gid before chowning. This leads to bug when a uid/gid doesn't

        exitsts on the running system



        This overide as a sexy side effect which allow badly create tarball

        (whithout --numeric-owner) to be extracted correctly



        This was reported upstream: http://bugs.python.org/issue12841

        '''

        if hasattr(os, "geteuid") and os.geteuid() == 0:

            # We have to be root to do so.