[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 28.03.2019 um 18:40 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Björn Stabel writes:
>> Sorry for commenting from the peanut gallery, but his problem may be
>> that he doesn't want to disclose his user name to anyone nosy enough to
>> snoop around in the package files.
> Not tested, but something like
>
> env TAR_OPTIONS="--user=0 --group=0" cygport ...
>
> should do it.
In fact that seems to work, although there is no TAR_OPTIONS documented 
in the manual page.
But meanwhile I've solved the issue otherwise already.
Thomas

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