[BusyBox 0003844]: tar replaces permissions on existing directories

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=3844 
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Reported By:                wz2b
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   3844
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             06-23-2008 09:06 PDT
Last Modified:              06-23-2008 09:06 PDT
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Summary:                    tar replaces permissions on existing directories
Description: 
I have been diagnosing some dpkg installation behavior that differs from
what non-busybox dpkg.  The unpacking in dpkg actually occurs in the code
for tar, so as an experiment I tried to determine if tar has the same
behavior.  The scenario is this: if an archive contains intermediate
directories, busybox's untar apparently sets the permissions of those
intermediate directories to match the tarball even if the directory
already existed.



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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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06-23-08 09:06  wz2b           New Issue                                    
06-23-08 09:06  wz2b           Status                   new => assigned     
06-23-08 09:06  wz2b           Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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