64746 – Portage UID from snapshot

Bug 64746 - Portage UID from snapshot

Summary: Portage UID from snapshot

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor
Assignee:	Mirror Admins

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Reported:	2004-09-20 06:02 UTC by Piotr Sikora
Modified:	2004-09-21 05:50 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Piotr Sikora 2004-09-20 06:02:42 UTC

When decompres portage tree from snapshot in /usr/portage all dir and files have uid 1005 and 1005 gid. This is very important problem because when in system adding 6 user he have possibility to write/read files in portage tree.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.change UID and GID for /usr/portage and all file in
2.cd /usr
3.chown -R portage:portage portage


Actual Results:  
all file change UID and GID

Expected Results:  
Don't know

I have brand-new Gentoo install with handbook.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-20 17:37:49 UTC

we have nothing to do with tree snapshots

Comment 2 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-21 05:50:11 UTC

I changed the script that produces those tarballs so it will chown all files to 250:250, which is the default user:group for portage.  If a user has changed the default UID/GID, they will still be owned incorrectly.  This is something we will not fix.