Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
- Subject: Re: [OT] How to extract a BOM archive correctly?
- From: "A.M." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:43:08 -0400
On Oct 4, 2007, at 16:58 , Greg Guerin wrote:
Karan, Cem originally wrote:
I've got an annoying permissions problem
with a BOM archive that I need to extract to fix.
I went back to the original post, because I was a little unsure
about what
you were asking for.
"BOM" means Bill Of Materials. It's not an archive format, like
tar or
zip. It's a "listing" format that tells what permissions,
ownership, etc.
should be on files after they are extracted from an archive. So a BOM
supplements an archive, but is not an archive itself. See 'man bom'.
BOM's are also used for other things, such as acting as receipts for
installed items, allowing "Fix Permissions" to work, uninstallers,
and so
on.
But if you want to change the permissions in an archive, or more
accuately,
in the files installed from the archive, you have to change the BOM
in the
original package or bundle that has the archive and the original BOM.
To list a BOM, see 'man lsbom'. To create a BOM, see 'man mkbom'.
'apropos bom' lists the 3 items I've referenced.
I was wondering what the archives had to do with Unicode. Thanks for
the explanation- you're the bom.
-M
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