running as root causes tar to try and set owner/group

[squeedee]

We run mini_portile in a docker container, which defaults to a root user.
When tar (on ubuntu lucid) is asked to untar a src distribution, it defaults to setting owner and group, which it cannot do inside the container. Our workaround is to pass --no-same-owner to tar. --no-same-owner is the default behaviour in tar when the user is not root.

Currently we monkey patch mini_portile - do you have any recommendations?

There are a lot of integration environments for mini_portile, so not sure how reliable this patch would be for all users of mini_portile.

[flavorjones]

Thanks for reporting this. Let me look and propose a solution.