[pacman-dev] [PATCH] check_pkg_full: check user/group names

[Andrew Gregory]

On 06/13/14 at 12:05am, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 12/06/14 23:57, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > The effect on MTREE file size is negligible and this provides a more
> > reliable way to verify file ownership given that user/group ids are not
> > standardized.
> 
> Being too lazy to check myself...
> 
> How does this work with packages like openlap which does this in the
> PKGBUILD:
> 
> chown root:439
> "${pkgdir}"/etc/openldap/{slapd.{conf,ldif},DB_CONFIG.example}
> 
> and then creates the group in the install file:
> 
> groupadd -g 439 ldap &>/dev/null
> 
> Allan

Hrm, it looks like when the MTREE file globally sets a uname/gname and
a user/group doesn't exist on the build machine those files will
inherit the last one set, so that usage breaks this.

apg