[GRASS-dev] Re: nc_spm_08 - 'cat' double

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Helena wrote:
...
>> I too have no idea what UID.GIS is,
>
> when tarring it up perhaps the archive flag was given? or so, thus `ls -l`
> on the untarred dataset retains the unix filesystem user ID number and
> group ID number, which for everyone else but the packager will be wrong.
> when the permissions are reset somehow so group rights are needed, or
> the GRASS you-must-own-the-mapset rule to write maps gets triggered,
> breakage occurs.

I think that I packaged it (don't remember). I always use
tar cvfz filename.tar.gz directory/*

Isn't that correct?

Markus