setup.py: x_sdist default root owner for archive files

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e47eb7390..e9b01d92b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -528,11 +528,15 @@ class x_install_scripts(install_scripts):
 
 
 class x_sdist(sdist):
-	""" sdist defaulting to .tar.bz2 format """
+	""" sdist defaulting to .tar.bz2 format, and archive files owned by root """
 
 	def finalize_options(self):
 		if self.formats is None:
 			self.formats = ['bztar']
+		if self.owner is None:
+			self.owner = 'root'
+		if self.group is None:
+			self.group = 'root'
 
 		sdist.finalize_options(self)