>> CPIO format files specify file ownerships by numeric ID, not by name. > > I don't have anything useful to say here, I just wanted to gag publically. > > (I don't see why you'd care about distributing LSB stuff in CPIO format, > personally. You just went to all that trouble to let them distribute it in > rpm format, after all...) > rpm is a feavily mod'ed CPIO, hence the need.