From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 8 15:42:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621EF14F98 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id PAA89037; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908082240.PAA89037@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: ports/13030: Many ports use ``chown'' rather than ``/usr/sbin/chown'' in their Makefiles Reply-To: Bill Fumerola Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/13030; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bill Fumerola To: Anton Berezin Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/13030: Many ports use ``chown'' rather than ``/usr/sbin/chown'' in their Makefiles Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:40:01 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Anton Berezin wrote: > Unfortunately, bsd.port.mk does not provide the CHOWN variable, like it > does with LN, CP etc. > > There are two ways to fix this. The first is to introduce CHOWN into > bsd.port.mk, and change all ports which use chown, either as ``chown'', > or as ``/usr/sbin/chown'' (20+68=88 ports). > > The second way (I've put a patch here for this) is to change 68 > ``chown'' ports to match their well-behaved ``/usr/sbin/chown'' friends. > > One more suggestion could be to add check for chown to portlint. :-) Note: After recently moving to zsh after excessive prodding by certain people on #FreeBSD, this has bitten me in the ass because zsh reads ~/.zprofile and not ~/.profile I'd like an ${CHOWN} that is set to /usr/sbin/chown and all the changes that would go with it. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message