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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:19:01
Message-Id: 3F831F96.9050603@technaut.darktalker.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 16:00, Florian Schneider wrote:
3 >
4 >>So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a few months
5 >>things may change.
6 >
7 >
8 > yes, few people, but why wait ?
9 >
10 >
11 >>Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue?
12 >
13 >
14 > uhh just read the source code :p
15 > but if thats not good enough:
16 > root@vapier 0 root # chown root:root f
17 > root@vapier 0 root # chown root.root f
18 > chown: `root.root': invalid user
19 > -mike
20
21 I don't think its that big of a deal. Can't one of the devs just change
22 user.group to user:group in the relatively small amount of affected ebuilds?
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25 Andrew Gaffney
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[gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com>