Bug 381913 – sys-apps/portage (/usr/bin/repoman) : Missing warning about chmod/chown

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2011-09-05 10:42:05 UTC]

I think is a good idea add a warning when chmod/chown is used instead of fperms/fowners.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-09-05 18:49:55 UTC]

The thing is, fperms and fowners operate on the install image in ${D}, while it may still be necessary to use chown and chmod in ${ROOT} for various reasons (including bug 141619 and bug 378451). So, would a ban on chown and chmod inside src_install really improve anything? Note that they'd still need to be called by Makefiles and whatnot.

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-09-06 10:26:44 UTC]

I asked because I guess it can be an improvement, feel free to close if is not.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-09-06 17:02:32 UTC]

If it was a portability issue then maybe we could justify a warning. However, it's not, and I think a warning like this would just be annoying.