Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
To: None <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/10/2005 14:31:52
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On 2005.10.10 12:45:00 +0000, reinoud@netbsd.org wrote:
| >Description:
|=20
| I miss the `feature' that sysinst doesn't check the special access=20
| permissions of files installed. So when f.e. `ping' isn't installed with=
=20
| the correct permissions (due to unpacking with `tar xzf' f.e.) it doesn't=
=20
| fix this. This can give weird behaviour also in `X' when xterm f.e. can't=
=20
| update the wtmp.
|=20

Extracting the sets with 'tar xzf' isn't the best thing to do. What
does sysinst has to do with this ? You can re-extract the sets with
the proper flags ('xzpf' or similar) and it will be ok.

		-- Rui Paulo

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