From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21152 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Oct 2003 21:00:30 -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 31336 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 21:00:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3F83294E.7020506@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:59:58 -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: <1065559614.13686.24.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> <1065559952.31921.1.camel@johnm.willow.local> In-Reply-To: <1065559952.31921.1.camel@johnm.willow.local> 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] Re: coreutils >=5.0.1 breaks chown user.group on new systems X-Archives-Salt: c946c966-bbba-4996-b8a1-19486a9dd606 X-Archives-Hash: d6ecc1d9c19e7b803b1894ab6bbcf265 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? -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list