[OE-core] dbus build host uid/gid leaking into target home directory

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Oct 14 09:39:09 UTC 2014


On 14 October 2014 07:23, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> Looking at 'man tar', there is a '--numeric-owner' option to always
> use numbers for user/group names. It might just be that we need to
> recommend using this option when untarring a rootfs onto a mounted
> volume. This option is present in GNU tar, I'm not sure about other
> implementations, and I haven't given it a proper test, but it looks
> like the thing we want.

It's part of BSD tar too (well, Darwin).

Ross



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