On Sun, 22 May 2005 10:49:39 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So I was wondering for a solution for this problem: we have a | $USERLAND variable which can be used to select the way the chown must | be done, if chown root:root or chown root:wheel; I think both BSD and | Darwin userland prefers root:wheel above root:root, so maybe adding a | function in eutils which fixes the permissions based on the current | $USERLAND value is enough...
get_root_group() {
if use userland_bsd ; then
echo "wheel"
else
echo "root"
fi
}
maybe?
The other option is to do a sneaky chown wrapper that automatically
detects that kind of thing. I'm against that on general principle
because it'll break too often.
I'll unofficial-document whatever's decided upon, anyway.
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