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

["Jeffrey Smelser" <jsmelser@travelnow.com>]

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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