this is not an apkg issue. it's an buildpacket issue.
On 29.01.2017 02:38, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi KP
>
> Am 29.01.2017 um 00:45 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
>> Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2017, 10:04:59 schrieb Andrew:
>>> On 28.01.2017 03:30, kp kirchdoerfer wrote:
Hi Andrew;
Am Freitag,
Hi Andrew
Am 29.01.2017 um 14:33 schrieb Andrew:
this is not an apkg issue. it's an buildpacket issue.
Alledgedly buildpacket has requirements that cannot always be met,
because apkg cannot or does not set UID/permissions. I see this as a
weakness of the packaging system.
cheers
ET
buildpacket does not rely on apkg at all; buildpacket creates tarball,
and apkg extracts it much later.
trouble is here:
# fetch the numeric uid/gid is user- and group-names were specified
my ($uid, $gid) = split(/\:/,$ownership);
if (!isNumeric($uid)) {
