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 :) HTH, -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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