Package: fai-client
Version: 4.2.2
Severity: normal
hello -
i recently ran into an issue while trying to deploy ubuntu 14.04 vms.
/var/log's group ownership has been changed to the syslog group. however,
this group does not have a pre-defined gid. the result is that in the
dirinstall case /var/log comes out of fai w/its group owner set to the
syslog gid of the host system (which may differ from that in the
tarball).
this would appear to be a general situation that could arise whenever
there is a user/group in the basefile that does not have a pre-defined
uid/gid. for my usage (focused on initial installs) changing ftar to use
tar's --numeric-owner was the fix.
the attached trivial patch makes this change. are there use cases
where it is not appropriate?
thank you.
andy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fai-client depends on:
ii debconf-utils 1.5.49
ii file 5.11-2+deb7u3
ii iproute 20120521-3+b3
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1
ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u1
Versions of packages fai-client recommends:
ii libgraph-perl 1:0.91-1
Versions of packages fai-client suggests:
pn logtail <none>
-- no debconf information
--- ./bin/ftar.orig 2012-04-11 05:06:25.000000000 -0700
+++ ./bin/ftar 2014-08-25 11:19:41.936082615 -0700
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
fi
echo "ftar: extracting $file to $target/$dir" | tr -s '/'
- $catname $file | tar -C $target/$dir $vflag -xf -
+ $catname $file | tar -C $target/$dir $vflag --numeric-owner -xf -
tardone=1
# if option -1 is set, only one class will be used
[ $single -eq 1 ] && exit 0
