The following reply was made to PR install/31543; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, install-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:05:24 +0200

 On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:12:33PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
 > On 2005.10.10 20:48:13 +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 > | True, my point is why `postinstall' isn't checking permissions on files set 
 > | instead of only checking for f.e. obsolete files ?
 > 
 > I don't feel that's the job of postinstall. If you build.sh -U install=/ 
 > everything will work ok, AFAIK.
 > On the other hand, I think if you are extracting sets you should know
 > how to work with tar.
 
 :) you are right... i'll retract it though i still think there is an 
 argument to make `postinstall' a sanity checker in general.
 
 Cheers,
 Reinoud