Usage of rpm applet

[Michael S. Zick]

On Mon February 13 2006 17:44, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 7:44 pm, Andy Green wrote:
> > > *) unknown user/group name
> >
> > I guess the RPM has files inside it with the original user:group
> > specified inside the cpio archive.  After unpack, it tries to set the
> > user:group on the files, but your system does not have these names in
> > /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> 
> Should we add the user:group to /etc/passwd if it doesn't exist?  (With 
> default shell /dev/null?)
> 
> What does the full RPM implementation do in this case?
>
Do not know RPM --

But *.deb and *.tbz2 handlers put in the passwd comment field something
like: 'Add by [RPM | DEB | WhatEver] (of package)' 

Any sort of distinctive marking in the comment field should do the
trick of figuring out what trashed your password file.

Mike
> > -Andy
> 
> Rob