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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Zip too? I thought only on Windows, while tar retains unix permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

All archive formats do it, afaik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But i'm sure there was an issue somewhile ago, because zip only preserves Windows permissions...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's a bunch of zip implementations(Info-Zip, Gzip, 7-Zip, PKZip, Pigz, etc.), so perhaps an older version of one of the implementations didn't support preserving the Linux executable permission in the past.