🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7g651k$ijf$1@cad6.cs.utexas.edu>, James Lee
<leekk@cs.utexas.edu> writes
>In alt.os.linux Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <moritz@news.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:
>:>OK... I downloaded that and tried to convert a tgz file to a rpm
>:>while login as root (obviously).
>:>When run from a Win98 partition, it complains that it cannot
>:>     "Cannot chown to uid 279 gid 50: Operation not permitted"
>:>error.
>:>I don't have anyone with uid 279 here on this RH machine.
>:>Is uid 279 supposed to be some special guy? 
>:>ftp is the only one having gid 50.
>
>: Did you run it as root? I think you have to do that or tell it to ignore
>: permissions?
>
>
>I was login as root. I didn't see any options of -force or something
>similar in alien's man pages.

As FAT partitions don't support owners and permissions, you will find
that if you try to chown a file on a FAT partition that you get EPERM. 
I venture that it is just trying to restore the numeric user and group
ids (and as they're not used on your system, it has no names for them!)
which the file had before it was packaged.

I suspect there may be some working files created in the conversion
process, and they may be generated in the current directory --try
running the program in an ext2 partition and see if it helps.

John

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