On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:32:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Well, if rpm is CPIO + extensions to store uid's by name instead of just > number, then there isn't a problem. RPM doesn't use the uid/gid metadata in the cipo payload, it uses the symbolic (not numerical) uid/gid in the RPM metadata header. Cheers, Matt