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Re: Odd ownership of files in tarball [Re: Debian 5.0 (lenny) tar ball for the SheevaPlug - USB install]



* Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> [2009-05-19 09:17]:
> How exactly did you produce this diff? If you extract the tarball on
> another system and then produced the diff on this system, then this is
> just expected. The tarball only stores numerical ids and the displayed
> names correspond to the names for these ids on the running system.
> Numerical ids are not garantueed to be the same accross different Debian
> installations.

Yep, that's it.  I just checked the files on the running system and
they all look okay.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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