Mamoru KOMACHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:41:00 +0200,
> Florian Schneider wrote:
>
>> I've found out, that the chown doesn't accept the dot-version
>> (user.group) anymore (except when we downgrade the posix version
>> with an environment variable).
>> 
>> bash-2.05b# chown florian.users blah
>> chown: `florian.users': invalid user
>
> "fowners user.group dst" will also fail in sush a system since fowners
> uses chmod internally. I've just fixed sys-apps/at for the sake of
> GWN of this week ;) (atd won't start if fowners doesn't set directory
> owner correctly)
>
> Here is a list of affected ebuilds at the moment:
>

[...]

Ouch.

,----[ /etc/env.d/00coreutils-posix2-version ]
| _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
| 
`----

To bypass that mess.

Matt

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