From 56dd768176a9ed3474dba9bb0c641507558668ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seblu <sebastien.luttringer@smartjog.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:36:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add a comment about python upstream bug
---
installsystems/tarball.py | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/installsystems/tarball.py b/installsystems/tarball.py
index cb2af46..d6f7fd1 100644
--- a/installsystems/tarball.py
+++ b/installsystems/tarball.py
@@ -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.
--
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