Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems

[Lisa Seelye]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:23, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
> > I don't think its that big of a deal. Can't one of the devs just change
> > user.group to user:group in the relatively small amount of affected ebuilds?
>
> It's not a huge deal, but it's not tiny either.  There are (the last time I
> counted) at least 400 places that need to be changed and that's just where
> "chown" is used.  That doesn't count the fowner calls.  Unless there's a
> script involved, I don't think it will be "one of the devs" fixing things
> up on this one.

Let's say you've got a file, 'foo' that contains
----CUT----
chown root.root foo
----CUT----

# echo "`cat foo | cut -d "." -f1`:`cat foo | cut -d "." -f2`"

seems to work on the simple case.

I'm sure someone can come up with a regex to match the dotted-chown.


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-Lisa
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