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* [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
@ 2003-10-07 19:41 Florian Schneider
  2003-11-06 10:00 ` Mamoru KOMACHI
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Florian Schneider @ 2003-10-07 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Hello,

After building my new system last week, I've found out, that the chown doesn't 
accept the dot-version (user.group) anymore (except when we downgrade the 
posix version with an environment variable).

bash-2.05b# chown florian.users blah
chown: `florian.users': invalid user

This also means that a lot of ebuilds have to be fixed.

On my system, 16 ebuild are affected, and at least six are from the system 
layout (mailbase man portage baselayout slocate linux-headers)

You can read more here:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30596



Regards,

Florian


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* RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
@ 2003-10-07 19:48 Jeffrey Smelser
  2003-10-07 20:00 ` Florian Schneider
  2003-10-07 20:05 ` John Mylchreest
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Smelser @ 2003-10-07 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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?? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schneider [mailto:mlist-catcher@gmx.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 2:41 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new
> systems
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After building my new system last week, I've found out, that 
> the chown doesn't 
> accept the dot-version (user.group) anymore (except when we 
> downgrade the 
> posix version with an environment variable).
> 
> bash-2.05b# chown florian.users blah
> chown: `florian.users': invalid user
> 
> This also means that a lot of ebuilds have to be fixed.
> 
> On my system, 16 ebuild are affected, and at least six are 
> from the system 
> layout (mailbase man portage baselayout slocate linux-headers)
> 
> You can read more here:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30596
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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* RE: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems
@ 2003-10-07 20:00 Jeffrey Smelser
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Smelser @ 2003-10-07 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

I guess from what i see, if your bleeding edge your affected.. But alas, it will be a problem soon ..

Sorry to budge in.. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schneider [mailto:mlist-catcher@gmx.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on
> new systems
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 21:48 schrieb Jeffrey Smelser:
> > 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??
> 
> At least chown user.group does work according to the NEWS 
> file item from 
> coreutils below.
> 
> It says:
> 
> > - chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the 
> OWNER:GROUP
> >   specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems.  If chown *was 
> not* compiled
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default.  If chown
> >   was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may 
> enable the
> >   old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your 
> environment.
> 
> BTW: I use linux-2.6.0-test5-love3 with glibc-2.3.2-r5 and 
> nptl and the ~x86 
> arch keyword.
> 
> So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a 
> few months things 
> may change.
> 
> Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue?
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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2003-10-07 19:41 [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems Florian Schneider
2003-11-06 10:00 ` Mamoru KOMACHI
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2003-11-06 16:43   ` Matthew Kennedy
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2003-10-07 19:48 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 20:43     ` 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
2003-10-07 20:00 Jeffrey Smelser

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