At 10:27 AM 4/30/03 , Soren Jacobsen wrote:

>I believe that the pkgsrc tarballs contain files with a group of wsrc
>and they're group writable. So just add yourself to the wsrc group. Also
>ignore my previous message, I don't know what I was thinking. I meant
>chmod -R g+w /usr/pkgsrc, not 775.

I don't see a functional difference in the two methods (given the original
permissions and what they are to be changed to). What am I missing? Is the
"g+w" way just The Right Way to do it?

Thanks in advance,
Tim