ports.tar owner/group

[Kastus Shchuka]

Hi.

After running port sync I see files extracted from ports.tar owned by a non-existent group with numerical id 505:

$ ls -l /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/
total 474776
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin   20472245 Apr 30 17:46 PortIndex
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin        512 Apr 30 18:29 PortIndex.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x  30 root  505          960 Jan 30 18:30 base
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  114272256 Jan 30 18:51 base.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin        512 Jan 30 18:51 base.tar.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x  65 root  505         2080 Apr 30 19:21 ports
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  108322816 Apr 30 18:29 ports.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin        512 Apr 30 18:29 ports.tar.rmd160

All files in ports.tar are owned by buildbot:buildbot or numerically 500/505.

drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Mar 29 17:36 ports/
-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot  234 Nov 16  2020 ports/.gitattributes
drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Nov 26 10:09 ports/.github/
-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot   84 Nov 16  2020 ports/.gitignore
-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot 1476 Mar 29 17:36 ports/.mailmap
-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot 1996 Feb  8 23:57 ports/LICENSE

drwxr-xr-x  0 500    505         0 Mar 29 17:36 ports/
-rw-r--r--  0 500    505       234 Nov 16  2020 ports/.gitattributes
drwxr-xr-x  0 500    505         0 Nov 26 10:09 ports/.github/
-rw-r--r--  0 500    505        84 Nov 16  2020 ports/.gitignore
-rw-r--r--  0 500    505      1476 Mar 29 17:36 ports/.mailmap
-rw-r--r--  0 500    505      1996 Feb  8 23:57 ports/LICENSE


As I don't have local user with id 500 and neither I have group with id 505,
I end up with files owned by unknown group.

I think it is a side effect of extracting ports.tar by user root which can preserve original numeric ids.

I wonder if extracted tarball should be forced to root:admin ownership after extraction.

Or do I need to create local user buildbot:buildbot (500:505) to continue using binary packages?

Thanks,

Kastus