Re: [gentoo-dev] G/FBSD compatibility: root:root and cp -a

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:08 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Ok, to help devels know which are the requisites of Gentoo/FreeBSD porting (as
> we're going near to a release, I hope), I think it's better telling here what
> we hope you all will avoid (and we must replace when keywording).
> Those problems are also valid for ppc-macos AFAIK, so you won't help just us,
> but also ppc-macos project.
>
> The first one is the root:root problem (there's no root group in *BSD and
> BSD-based systems); the solution is usually using 0:0 to chown. If nobody is
> going to disagrees with this, I think this solution is what we should use.
>
> The other problem is with cp -a: -a is a GNU option which is not supported by
> non-GNU cp commands. As the man pages says, it's equivalent to -dpPR.
> Unfortuately -dpPR is not portable in itself, but usually what you need is
> -pPR which works just fine usually.
>
> I'm not going to have a big immediate change of all the ebuilds in portage,
> but at least I hope new ebuilds doesn't get added with those problems in
> them :)
>

Patch them ? ;)


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa