Re: tar --no-same-owner (design bug)

[Bob Proulx]

> when extracting a tar file as root user, the tar program is behaving like
> --same-owner has been specified. (which is a standard I assume?)
> 
> This behavior is what the user usually wants when using 'tar' for
> backups. But it's not what the user wants when extracting a package
> source archive.

It sounds like you are running build processes as the root user?
Generally speaking I might suggest that you avoid running processes
such as those as root.  It is usually safer to run those as a
non-privileged user.  That way errors in development makefiles and the
like can't harm the operating system.

Bob