On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:08:40PM +0000, Philip Charles wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:52:28PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > > > Marcus, earlier this week I downloaded the latest tarball > > > and lots of files and directories have the group id set to > > > 1000, so forexample /info and 5-7 other toplevel directories > > > has that group. Also X did complain about stange file owners. > > > (yes, I did unpack using the --same-owner and zxvpf options) > > > > What? That's awful. Thanks for letting me now (and I think I checked it! > > I need to clean my glasses, obviously.) I will make a new tar file, then. > > > I am assuming from the follow-ups to this that it is safe to use the > latest tarball in the installation CD. Am I correct?
I think so. Just check with tar tzf, and if there are no suspicious user ids, it's okay. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
