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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:23:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050523162344.GF14128@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505221049.39924@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>

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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: [Sun May 22 2005, 03:49:39AM CDT]
> So I was wondering for a solution for this problem: we have a
> $USERLAND variable which can be used to select the way the chown must
> be done, if chown root:root or chown root:wheel; I think both BSD and
> Darwin userland prefers root:wheel above root:root, so maybe adding a
> function in eutils which fixes the permissions based on the current
> $USERLAND value is enough...

Of course, this issue is precisely what GLEP 27 was created to handle.
The portage devs have let us know that xml is a problem, but otherwise
this GLEP appears sound, and I believe that the portage team has
something along these lines as part of their long-range plans.

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear	
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-23 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-22  8:49 [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-05-22  9:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-05-22  9:20   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-05-22 15:04     ` Kito
2005-05-22 11:27   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-22  9:09 ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-24 20:26   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-05-24 21:51     ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-22 14:38 ` Alec Warner
2005-05-22 14:48   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-05-23 16:23 ` Grant Goodyear [this message]
2005-05-23 17:22   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-25 10:12 ` Paul de Vrieze

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