todo: preserve file permissions with rootless containers

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devops, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by locating the tar invocation used for rootless containers in the TypeScript repository and compare its macOS handling with the referenced BSD tar behavior. Done means file permissions are preserved without passing unsupported --same-owner to macOS tar. No file or test is named, so tracing the existing container/archive path is required.

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Description

--same-owner isn’t used on macOS because the system tar there is BSD tar, not GNU tar. BSD tar doesn’t support the --same-owner flag, and would error out if we passed it. On macOS, ownership-preservation behavior is handled automatically when running under sudo, so the extra flag isn’t needed.

BSD tar reference as used for mac os instead of GNU
BSD tar docs reference for owner

Originally posted by @ASuciuX in #29

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