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  r75192 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-03 01:49:48 +0200 (Sat, 03 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  #6516 added owner/group support for tarfiles in Distutils
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index ace9eee..76e1de8 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
         ('medata-check', None,
          "Ensure that all required elements of meta-data "
          "are supplied. Warn if any missing. [default]"),
+        ('owner=', 'u',
+         "Owner name used when creating a tar file [default: current user]"),
+        ('group=', 'g',
+         "Group name used when creating a tar file [default: current group]"),
         ]
 
     boolean_options = ['use-defaults', 'prune',
@@ -114,6 +118,8 @@
 
         self.archive_files = None
         self.metadata_check = 1
+        self.owner = None
+        self.group = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         if self.manifest is None:
@@ -449,7 +455,8 @@
             self.formats.append(self.formats.pop(self.formats.index('tar')))
 
         for fmt in self.formats:
-            file = self.make_archive(base_name, fmt, base_dir=base_dir)
+            file = self.make_archive(base_name, fmt, base_dir=base_dir,
+                                     owner=self.owner, group=self.group)
             archive_files.append(file)
             self.distribution.dist_files.append(('sdist', '', file))