| Subject: | Archive::Tar reports many errors when unpacking archives |
When extracting archives using Archive::Tar, there are many messages about 'Could not set uid/gid'. The cause is that the uid in the tar file does not exist on the local machine so the chown call fails. The solution is to extract the files with the user as the owner, much like the --same-owner flag in GNU tar. I submitted a bug for Archive::Tar but CPANPLUS will need to be changed to eliminate the message.