I built a vixie-cron pkgsrc but I can "make install" it again and again
without the "is already installed" message and "pkg_delete" suggestion.

(I know it should fail, because other pkgsrc entries won't install if
already installed. Just tested.)

# ls -l /home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     jeremy        890 Oct 31 18:46
/home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_INFO
-rw-r--r--    1 root     jeremy        162 Oct 31 18:46
/home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_VERSION

# ls -l /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/*bin/cron*
---s--x--x    1 root     root        31732 Oct 31 20:43
/home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/bin/crontab
---x--x--x    1 root     root        36552 Oct 31 20:43
/home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/sbin/cron

# pkg_info -e vixie-cron_4.0_b1
vixie-cron_4.0_b1

The following should fail:

# bmake install
===> Installing for vixie-cron_4.0_b1
install -c -m  111 -o root -s cron    /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/sbin/
install -c -m 4111 -o root -s crontab /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/bin/
sh putman.sh crontab.1 /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man
+ cp crontab.1 /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man/man1/crontab.1
+ set +x
sh putman.sh cron.8    /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man
+ cp cron.8 /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man/man8/cron.8
+ set +x
sh putman.sh crontab.5 /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man
+ cp crontab.5 /home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/man/man5/crontab.5
+ set +x

It installs new files, but the pkg data doesn't get updated.

# ls -l /home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     jeremy        890 Oct 31 18:46
/home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_INFO
-rw-r--r--    1 root     jeremy        162 Oct 31 18:46
/home/jeremy/netbsd/var/db/pkg/vixie-cron_4.0_b1/+BUILD_VERSION

So the package was not reregistered. But files were updated:

# ls -l
/home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/*bin/cron*
---s--x--x    1 root     root        31732 Oct 31 20:56
/home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/bin/crontab
---x--x--x    1 root     root        36552 Oct 31 20:56
/home/jeremy/netbsd/usr/pkg/sbin/cron

Here is the Makefile:

# grep -v '^$' Makefile
# $NetBSD$
# todo: edit man pages for paths
# todo: for some reason it allows install even when already installed
DISTNAME=               cron_4.0_b1
PKGNAME=                vixie-cron_4.0_b1
CATEGORIES=             sysutils
MASTER_SITES=           ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
EXTRACT_SUFX=           .shar
MAINTAINER=             packages@NetBSD.ORG
COMMENT=                Execute and maintain scheduled commands
WRKSRC=                 ${WRKDIR}
CPPFLAGS+=              -DCRONDIR='\"${PREFIX}/var/cron\"'
MAKE_ENV+=              DESTDIR=${PREFIX}
.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"

Any ideas on why this is allowed?

Thanks,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

p.s. Bad setuid root crontab. Needs to be setgid "crontab".

p.p.s. Why package cron?

1) because I need cron for my OS which uses pkgsrc for all software.

2) To start merging in fixes so basesrc cron can be updated. The cron in
NetBSD has a bad license. Vixie has fixed the license in this newer
version.