[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Use colon instead of dot separator for chown

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 28/05/2008, at 3:59 PM, Xavier wrote:

> Oops, I forgot to do some communication.
> When you started reporting macosx/bsd portability problems, I looked
> back at an old mail which was taken a bit too seriously and turned
> into a flamewar instead of something useful :
> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-October/009659.html
> So it mentioned du and cp problems, which you already found again.
> I don't understand the source vs . one because source is bash builtin,
> but Dan mentioned this already back then.

I remember reading that thread, but I completely forgot about it. I  
didn't really understand it then, and I still don't understand it now  
- it just seems like a huge flamewar. Briefly looking at the pacman-g2  
project, the whole thing (pacman vs pacman-g2) looks like a mess, but  
I won't get into that. It does look like there is interest in a BSD  
port. I have heard a lot of requests on IRC for "ArchBSD" and such,  
and at least a few BSD users would like pacman. As for OSX, I'm making  
a libalpm frontend, so we'll see if there's interest. Fortunately  
pacman seems to be working perfectly now, it's just the dev toolset  
(makepkg, repo-add, etc) that needs porting.

I haven't found any problems with source, it seems to be working fine  
for me, so I don't understand that one either.

> The last point was that chown problem so I patched it two days ago :
> http://shining.toofishes.net/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=e10f9e0d79598a27d1e9c48ba0f063400537b2ef

I was wondering where your repo was :P.

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Sebastian Nowicki