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

[Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 21:59, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> John Mylchreest wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > this is easily fixed using a simple sed, however when it comes down
> > to the actual ebuilds, this isnt a possibility.
>
> Why not?

Well, for a start it probably isn't always root.root, so how are you 
going to find a regex for all the cases?  You'd have to first look at 
all the chown entries (may even be more than one per line) and then 
decide how to handle it.

Peter
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