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From: Peter Simons <simons@××××.to>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-security] Re: Gentoo TOTALLY secure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:19:20
Message-Id: 878y98mn1h.fsf@peti.cryp.to
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Gentoo TOTALLY secure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Locke
1 Locke writes:
2
3 > why do you extract all files in the tar archive?
4
5 Oh shit! I forgot to explain something! Look closely at the
6 line you neglected to quote:
7
8 /bin/tar --exclude=CVS -cjf ${FILENAME} portage
9
10 First of, the lack of any '+' or '-' in front of it means
11 that I actually didn't modify it in any way but that it was
12 in the script to begin with. So it is not quite exactly my
13 "code".
14
15 Secondly, if you look real hard, you'll find the use of the
16 flag '-c' on that command. This is an abbreviation for
17 "create", which means that the command creates a tar
18 archive. So it's not really extracting anything from the
19 archive. If you want to know more about this, check out
20 this:
21
22 man tar
23
24
25 > And please stop your sarcastic expressions.
26
27 Just did.
28
29 Peter
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