On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:08 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Ok, to help devels know which are the requisites of Gentoo/FreeBSD porting > (as > we're going near to a release, I hope), I think it's better telling here what > we hope you all will avoid (and we must replace when keywording). > Those problems are also valid for ppc-macos AFAIK, so you won't help just us, > but also ppc-macos project. > > The first one is the root:root problem (there's no root group in *BSD and > BSD-based systems); the solution is usually using 0:0 to chown. If nobody is > going to disagrees with this, I think this solution is what we should use. > > The other problem is with cp -a: -a is a GNU option which is not supported by > non-GNU cp commands. As the man pages says, it's equivalent to -dpPR. > Unfortuately -dpPR is not portable in itself, but usually what you need is > -pPR which works just fine usually. > > I'm not going to have a big immediate change of all the ebuilds in portage, > but at least I hope new ebuilds doesn't get added with those problems in > them :) >
Patch them ? ;) -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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