32582 – newer coreutils requires stricter syntax for chown.

Bug 32582 - newer coreutils requires stricter syntax for chown.

Summary: newer coreutils requires stricter syntax for chown.

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23116

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-11-02 16:14 UTC by Terje Kvernes
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Terje Kvernes 2003-11-02 16:14:28 UTC

calling chown within portage seems to use "user.group"-syntax, but newer
coreutils requires "user:group" (which was about time).  :-)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge the latest coreutils and emerge anything that likes to use chown,
vanilla-sources or a webapp will do nicely.

Actual Results:  
nice messages about "invalid user apache.apache" and stuch tidbits, todays
ugliest error message of course, since a syntax change just made the '.'
available in a username.  :-)

Expected Results:  
chown within portage should use the correct syntax, which is also backward
compatible.

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.6.0-test8)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distcc"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo
ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms zlib gtkhtml gdbm
berkdb slang readline arts aalib bonobo svga mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl
perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt motif opengl ldap cdr mmx sse 3dnow X gtk
gtk2 gnome alsa kde encode xv leim gphoto2 dvd pda mozilla mozsvg lirc dvdr"

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-02 16:22:50 UTC

This is supposed to be fixed, can you give an exact error message ?

Comment 2 Dominik Stadler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-22 03:33:41 UTC

This seems to be a duplicate of Bug 31926, Bug 30596 and Bug 23116. I think we should duplicate it to Bug 23116, as this is where the required changes are tracked now. Can somebody with enough Bugzilla-Power duplicate this Bug, please?

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-22 07:43:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23116 ***