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From: John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:05:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065557156.25918.4.camel@johnm.willow.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F2E62790250AF4485864348F7E9F6B0014599E5@stingray.tnow.net>

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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:48, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> That's odd, I just got done installing a gentoo box a few days ago. chown -R $user.users work many times over when I was bringing my old home directories over... 
> 
> you sure that's a actual bug?? 

I personally can confirm this as well.
It does however depend on the POSIX standard the system is complying
too, which requires quite bleeding edge for this to occur.

none the less this should be addressed before it effects too many users,
and this is something I am looking into now.

> > You can read more here:
> > 
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30596

Regards

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07 19:48 [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems Jeffrey Smelser
2003-10-07 20:00 ` Florian Schneider
2003-10-07 20:09   ` Mike Frysinger
2003-10-07 20:18     ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-10-07 20:23       ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2003-10-07 20:46         ` Lisa Seelye
2003-10-07 20:52           ` John Mylchreest
2003-10-07 20:59             ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-10-07 21:15               ` Peter Ruskin
2003-10-07 21:17               ` John Mylchreest
2003-10-07 20:43     ` [gentoo-dev] " Florian Schneider
2003-10-07 20:48       ` John Mylchreest
2003-10-07 21:11         ` Florian Schneider
2003-10-07 21:18           ` Markus Nigbur
2003-10-07 21:25           ` Florian Schneider
2003-10-07 20:05 ` John Mylchreest [this message]
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2003-10-07 20:00 Jeffrey Smelser
2003-10-07 19:41 Florian Schneider
2003-11-06 10:00 ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-11-06 10:14   ` Dennis Freise
2003-11-06 16:43   ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-11-06 20:33   ` Robin H. Johnson

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