version=3.0.3
Sender: tech-pkg-owner@NetBSD.org

Another trick is to use the post-extract rule to fix up the
permissions right after the distfile is unpacked.  I have become quite
familiar with that rule working on my updated zope2 (2.7/2.8/2.9)
packages, as many of the zope product distfiles contain at least one
"garbage" file.

- Doug

Quoting Todd Vierling (tv@duh.org):
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> 
> > I just came across the problem that a RM command in a Makefile would not
> > delete a file since the user was lacking write permissions to it. The
> > file had been unpacked from a downloaded archive and was probably stored
> > there without the user write permissons bit set.
> > To deal with such issues I propose to add a -f to the TOOLS_PLATFORM.rm
> > definition in mk/tools/tools.*.mk.
> > What do others think?
> 
> Short answer:  No.
> 
> Long answer:  It's not pkgsrc's job to make the tools act unlike the real
> thing, and making "rm" imply its -f option is doing just that.  Fix the
> offending Makefile via a patch, and supply the patch back to the author.
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>

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