Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org> writes:
> You still do not address the other concern raised:
> 
> 	[...] a NetBSD install creating and/or changing the ownership and
> 	permission of these directories may not be desired.
> 
> (A mount point does not solve this issue.)

I don't understand the concern.

You said the problem might be "/home is NFS mounted" -- well, if /home
is NFS mounted, creating the directory causes no harm -- you need such
a directory as a mount point ANYWAY. I don't understand your "(A mount
point...)" comment.

You also note the "symlink problem", and I've explained why that does
not seem particularly persuasive in the light of the fact that every
directory in the install has the exact same problem.

>   | >     *	If these are symbolic links to other locations, pax will unlink
>   | > 	the symlink and replace the path with an empty directory.
>   | 
>   | However, that's a general problem with our install.
> 
> I, too, would like our install & extraction mechanism was changed
> so that it did not have the adverse behaviour with locally created
> symlinks to directories.  Solving that does not address the other
> concerns.

It would seem to fully address the symlink concern. The only other
concern (singular) you have mentioned is the NFS concern, and frankly
I don't even understand what that concern is. Perhaps you could
explain it in a bit more detail.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com