Bug 8350 - Customisable uid/gid translation during installation (old issue #129)
Summary: Customisable uid/gid translation during installation (old issue #129)
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: opkg
Classification: Yocto Project Subprojects
Component: opkg (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Undecided enhancement
Target Milestone: next-minor
Assignee: Alex Stewart
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Reported: 2015-09-21 00:59 UTC by Alejandro del Castillo
Modified: 2021-07-08 16:53 UTC (History)
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Description Alejandro del Castillo 2015-09-21 00:59:55 UTC 
Tar archives can contain uids/gids and/or user/group names. When extracting to the filesystem we need to determine what uid/gid is used for created files. We should broadly support three options:

1) Use the uids/gids from the archive with no modification.
2) Resolve the user/group names into uids/gids using the default local method (generally passwd and group lookup).
3) Custom translation, such as using replacement passwd and group files or passing user/group names to an external program for translation.

It should be possible to choose between these options at runtime via conf options.

Currently listed for v0.3.0 release but may be bumped back to v0.4.0.

Originally reported by paul.betafive, Apr 21, 2014
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Comment 1 Alejandro del Castillo 2018-12-20 23:55:56 UTC 
Re-targeting in preparation of 0.4 release