[Nagiosplug-devel] User defined in make install

[Simon Bellwood]

"chown user:group" works on Linux as well as Solaris.

It's also better than "chown user.group" because a dot can be in a
username, a colon can't.

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 12:03 +0000, Voon, Ton wrote:
> I'm interested in what you propose. The current install using the user and
> group switches unfortunately stops the make install-strip working.
> 
> However, I can see that there may be some portability problems if you try
> and do the chown yourself as your example below is not supported on Solaris
> 2.6 (must be chown user:group, not user.group).
> 
> I'll be happier if you use some technique that the rest of GNU land uses.
> 
> Ton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
> Sent: 24 November 2004 11:30
> To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] User defined in make install
> 
> 
> Ahoy.
> install installs with user and group switches.
> 
> This severely befuddles the packaging process. Would a patch to rectify 
> this and move to 'install -m ...; chown user.group ... >& /dev/null || 
> :' be welcome?
>