The following reply was made to PR bin/32589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/32589
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:31:05 +0200

 On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:25:01PM +0000, Daniel de Kok wrote:
 >  How about this patch? FreeBSD exits when a directory could not be created.
 >  Since this may cause breakage, I have only added a warning.
 
 But this is a hard error, since the expectation are not matched.
 The reason why I created the PR (which I had completely forgotten...)
 was that a number of pkgsrc script did not bail out as expected.
 And of course the patch contains a lot of unrelated changes.
 
 Joerg