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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:18:03 -0600
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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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
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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

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
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