Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/13030: Many ports use ``chown'' rather than ``/usr/sbin/chown'' in their Makefiles Message-ID: <199908082240.PAA89037@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/13030; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
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.
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