Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group parameters to sdist command as found in Python 2.7 and originally slated for Python 3.2 but accidentally rolled back as part of the distutils2 rollback. Closes Issue #6516.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
index 38b169a..6814a1c 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
"[default: dist]"),
('skip-build', None,
"skip rebuilding everything (for testing/debugging)"),
+ ('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 = ['skip-build']
@@ -77,6 +83,8 @@
self.formats = None
self.dist_dir = None
self.skip_build = 0
+ self.group = None
+ self.owner = None
def finalize_options(self):
# have to finalize 'plat_name' before 'bdist_base'
@@ -122,6 +130,11 @@
if cmd_name not in self.no_format_option:
sub_cmd.format = self.formats[i]
+ # passing the owner and group names for tar archiving
+ if cmd_name == 'bdist_dumb':
+ sub_cmd.owner = self.owner
+ sub_cmd.group = self.group
+
# If we're going to need to run this command again, tell it to
# keep its temporary files around so subsequent runs go faster.
if cmd_name in commands[i+1:]: