From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4NGKMZX032258 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 16:20:22 GMT Received: from bmb24.med.uth.tmc.edu ([129.106.207.24] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DaFfJ-0003a6-MC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 16:20:29 +0000 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:23:44 -0500 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] root:root and fbsd Message-ID: <20050523162344.GF14128@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200505221049.39924@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505221049.39924@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e1687614-0e1b-43b0-81fb-13fd0c410da3 X-Archives-Hash: 26b74f337ee7984b21efdc9ecd4b7a5c --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 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- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCkgOQptxxUuD2W3YRAuBaAJ92/J3++KYfxe2vpGh7IIG5SRLzrgCdH+gW jheW8TzbmN0ww1ePoRDCjJc= =9i2B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list