X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=SLQQZEGWX3yOfdSg6zQhUT9ybR+lCKGKP1KJ+aZxf+3 H/8RG4hpYtr9/z0Ek8qc056MgAtKNARSZCSSm0HI2L0n7tYv45LRE9VZeumYAEHs ISE2TZ5e4mNKW6SdntlANKvA9POrQt2bFWud+wT7x0OGrtf+9fD+Q0xq9UyyuLdE = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=8k11JuJKiLbhFFA9HrhSgM8UrU8=; b=REdKKRIvd9O2vVkvb Y+fCZJd5zy1XtYrpYUh8irPNn1mwjZtIjyK80XIxLj+Zg0bU31W6iXbhViK7cgDz ms+nBWh/e/B+uXK/Nb9Z0rzKwcPWhGanxd+XUIIkxcufZidaBdzNOnV7wxDW9JxV w08F1q1myHhYL6AjyLIH0fwdVg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qa0-f49.google.com X-Received: by 10.140.84.18 with SMTP id k18mr1130259qgd.70.1403067868351; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53A11DDD.6050102@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:04:29 -0500 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Website: Package listing not working + cygport query References: <5395FA98 DOT 5050005 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk> <20140617143111 DOT GF7138 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20140617153200 DOT GA6910 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20140617153200.GA6910@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-06-17 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm surprised that I haven't seen this before: The name that you used to > generate your packages was "David Stacey/None". My parser wasn't > expecting a name with a space and I didn't detect the fact that the > parsing failed (#($& just realized that I forgot to fix that). So it > was just outputting a '0' size, one per line. > > Yaakov, wouldn't it make sense not to just use 0/0 as user/group when > generating packages with cygport by forcing --owner=0, --group=0 to the > tar command? I'm not suggesting that this is the right way to fix this > particular problem but I don't think it's a good idea to leak people's > names and groups out onto the interwebs if we can help it. It will also > make the packages slightly smaller. That would undermine any legitimate specification of gid/uid. I would like to see how this is handled in the Linux distros first. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple