[Haifux] Simulated permissions on VFAT

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Thu Feb 7 16:22:15 MSK 2008


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:55:49PM -0800, Alon Altman wrote:
> Another option (poor man's fakeroot) is to write a script that uses
> 'find' to create a script that restores the permissions.

Poor man's rpm, actually. fakeroot forgets things eventualy.

But what about other archivers? Any archiver that preserves unix
permissions (like tar) but allows in-place changing (like zip and
uncompressed tar)?

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