Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:18:03 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> Cc: "."@babolo.ru, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: These ports are not user:group safe--smlnj-110.0.7, hevea-1.0.5, free-amp, and linux_base-6.1 Message-ID: <3C27715B.C3262106@math.missouri.edu> References: <200112232134.AAA26473@aaz.links.ru> <3C276EEB.1EAEC50B@math.missouri.edu> <20011224131345.C19885@databits.net>
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Well, it looks like whoever submitted the port made the change from . to
: already.
Stephen
Pete Fritchman wrote:
>
> [ cc: list trimmed ]
>
> ++ 24/12/01 12:07 -0600 - Stephen Montgomery-Smith:
> | > > | + (cd ${PREFIX}/share/doc/hevea; ${CHOWN} -R root.wheel *)
> | > >
> | > > Instead of 'root', use ${SHAREOWN}, and instead of 'wheel', use
> | > > ${SHAREGRP}.
> | > >
> | > > Otherwise, I'd say this looks OK. What do others think?
> | > ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP}
> | > ':' instead of '.'
> | Is there a possibility that this will be bad for older users of FreeBSD
> | (like for example FreeBSD-2.2.8)?
>
> I think chown has always accepted either '.' or ':' as a user/group
> delimiter (glancing through CVS logs), but we are trying to switch to
> using ':' everywhere as we want to support usernames with periods in
> them (ie: chown john.smith:mygroup file), I think. Every other port
> (hopefully) was modified to use chown user:group instead of chown
> user.group too.
>
> -pete
>
> --
> Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)]
> finger petef@databits.net for PGP key
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