Re: ports setting UIDs/GIDs broadscape: "chmod -R" likely breaks things!

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Much wrote: Dear all, a couple of Ports have in the install part of their Makefiles constructs like this: @ ${CHOWN} -R pgsql:pgsql ~pgsql/. ;\ I perceive this as very problematic. For instance: Below ~pgsql there at least two mounted filesystems, both with a .snap directory

ports setting UIDs/GIDs broadscape: "chmod -R" likely breaks things!

2008-01-23 Thread Peter Much
Dear all, a couple of Ports have in the install part of their Makefiles constructs like this: @ ${CHOWN} -R pgsql:pgsql ~pgsql/. ;\ I perceive this as very problematic. For instance: Below ~pgsql there at least two mounted filesystems, both with a .snap directory, which must be GID