I wonder wether tar is storing numerical uid/gid or names? It seems that it normaly uses names, unless you specify --numeric-owner, then only uid/gid are stored into the tar file.
I guess this is important for us when extracting. Currently we are using the /etc/passwd UID/names mapping from inside the nfsroot when extracting the base file. But if the nfsroot has different UID/names than the base file that gets extracted this may lead to wrong uid. This may be the case then using a Debian nfsroot, but extracting a different Linux distribution like CentOS. Maybe we should add --numeric-owner to the tar calls in fai-make-nfsroot and when creating CentOS,.... base files. What do you think about this now? -- regards Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
