Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:38:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> That just leaves the question of wether dpkg uses uid/gid or symbolic
>> names when unpacking debs.
>
> I think this one is clear: it must be symbolic since the uids/gids
> aren't static. Unless you want to provide a package-specific
> mapping in the control data, and I can't see that gains much, since
> it makes unpacking unnecessarily complex. If it's symbolic, you
> simply just extract it.
Full ACK on symbolic. The question is what dpkg currently does. Do we
need to fix dpkg or is dpkg already ready for this?
MfG
Goswin
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