[Bug-tar] 1.15.1: Verify failes with multiple (shared) GIDs

[John Thomas McDole]

I'll preface this with a "I agree, this is a silly bug".  With tar 
version 1.15.1, we noticed that having multiple groups ("cvs", id's 
268,1021), verify would fail. example:

/export/cvs/MainFoodChain/2.6/app/include/app/lwappinit.h,v: Gid differs


The main reason this was setup this way was purely historical ('its 
someone else's fault'), I didn't go through the entire system changing 
ownership of each file since it would cause every file to get backed up 
again.  If the GID is being stored, would it not be a simple "double 
check" by looking up the GID first, and then verify the group name 
associated with that GID?  I guess this is more for "completeness" than 
"hey idiot, just change the group name, etc"

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John Thomas McDole
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