Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] 'rpm -qlv' does not correctly handle long owner and group name (#544)

2018-09-27 Thread Tomas Hoger
I got an email notification about a comment that was made on this issue by @n3npq , but I can't see it here in the github webui. Quoting his comment from the email notification: > FWIW, rpm -qlv used exactly the same format as cpio(1) when implemented way > back when. > > Continuing that pract

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] 'rpm -qlv' does not correctly handle long owner and group name (#544)

2018-09-21 Thread Tomas Hoger
If you do a `rpm -qlv` of a package where file owner or group name has 8 or more characters, the following problems happen: * Owner and group names are truncated to 8 characters even if they are longer. * If owner name has 8 characters (after the truncation mentioned in the previous point), ther