Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: John Mylchreest <johnm@g.o>
To: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:17:04
Message-Id: 1065561422.31921.5.camel@johnm.willow.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems by Andrew Gaffney
1 > > this is easily fixed using a simple sed, however when it comes down to
2 > > the actual ebuilds, this isnt a possibility.
3 >
4 > Why not?
5
6 it would require every change to be logged, each one to be individually
7 checked, QA'd, scanned and commited.
8
9 so basically, whether this is done manually or not, there will still be
10 similar amounts of work involved.
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12 if the chown is outside the ebuild, then that would need to be modified
13 also.
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17 John Mylchreest.
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