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.

Lib/distutils/command/bdist.py

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ class bdist(Command):
                      "[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 @@ class bdist(Command):
         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 @@ class bdist(Command):
             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:]:

Lib/distutils/command/bdist_dumb.py

@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ class bdist_dumb(Command):
                     ('relative', None,
                      "build the archive using relative paths"
                      "(default: false)"),
+                    ('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 = ['keep-temp', 'skip-build', 'relative']
@@ -48,6 +54,8 @@ class bdist_dumb(Command):
         self.dist_dir = None
         self.skip_build = None
         self.relative = 0
+        self.owner = None
+        self.group = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         if self.bdist_dir is None:
@@ -101,7 +109,8 @@ class bdist_dumb(Command):
 
         # Make the archive
         filename = self.make_archive(pseudoinstall_root,
-                                     self.format, root_dir=archive_root)
+                                     self.format, root_dir=archive_root,
+                                     owner=self.owner, group=self.group)
         if self.distribution.has_ext_modules():
             pyversion = get_python_version()
         else:

Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py

@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ class sdist(Command):
         ('metadata-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',
@@ -113,6 +117,8 @@ class sdist(Command):
 
         self.archive_files = None
         self.metadata_check = 1
+        self.owner = None
+        self.group = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         if self.manifest is None:
@@ -444,7 +450,8 @@ class sdist(Command):
             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))