Odd issue with 'make extract' in a directory outside /usr/ports

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:40:50PM -0400, Naram Qashat wrote:
> I have a folder outside /usr/ports that is not owned by root that I store ports 
> I am making edits on, and whenever I use 'make extract' on any port within that 
> folder while I am root, none of the permissions from the tarball it extracted 
> from are kept.  For example, a configure script that is set to mode 0755 will be 
> extracted as mode 0644, removing the execute flag.  I don't recall when this 
> started happening, as it used to work.  I saw nothing in the flags used to 
> extract that could be changed.  Manually extracting by running the commands 
> myself fails as well.  When I ran it manually, I tried to add -p to tar's flags, 
> but that still resulted in the execute flag being removed.  I'm not sure what's 
> going on with this, but I do know it works fine within /usr/ports.  Any help on 
> the matter is appreciated.

What type of file system are these ports on? What are mount parameters
used to mount it?

Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix at FreeBSD.org>
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