From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19808 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Oct 2003 20:19:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12484 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 20:19:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3F831F96.9050603@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:18:30 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gentoo Dev References: <3F2E62790250AF4485864348F7E9F6B0014599E5@stingray.tnow.net> <200310072200.10401.mlist-catcher@gmx.net> <200310071609.26047.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310071609.26047.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems X-Archives-Salt: b4d44bcf-5597-40ed-ae57-937fa9dfa1f6 X-Archives-Hash: 2a0d9344985d4e6397266aeb4b5892e9 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 16:00, Florian Schneider wrote: > >>So I think very few ppl will be affected by this, but in a few months >>things may change. > > > yes, few people, but why wait ? > > >>Can anyone reproduce the bug/problem/issue? > > > uhh just read the source code :p > but if thats not good enough: > root@vapier 0 root # chown root:root f > root@vapier 0 root # chown root.root f > chown: `root.root': invalid user > -mike I don't think its that big of a deal. Can't one of the devs just change user.group to user:group in the relatively small amount of affected ebuilds? -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list