Re: handling of new user/group additions in binary packages is broken

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Subject: Re: handling of new user/group additions in binary packages is broken
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:06:38 +0200

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:50:06PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Handling of new user/group additions from binary packages is broken
> w.r.t. the file ownerships given within binary archives, and it is
> effectively broken in its design.

It is not. There was an ommission in the original pkg_install-renovation
merge that had the extraction of ownership disabled (I forgot why),
otherwise it just works with new enough pkg_install.

Joerg

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