The following reply was made to PR install/31543; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, reinoud@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:31:52 +0100

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 On 2005.10.10 12:45:00 +0000, reinoud@netbsd.org wrote:
 | >Description:
 |=20
 | I miss the `feature' that sysinst doesn't check the special access=20
 | permissions of files installed. So when f.e. `ping' isn't installed with=
 =20
 | the correct permissions (due to unpacking with `tar xzf' f.e.) it doesn't=
 =20
 | fix this. This can give weird behaviour also in `X' when xterm f.e. can't=
 =20
 | update the wtmp.
 |=20
 
 Extracting the sets with 'tar xzf' isn't the best thing to do. What
 does sysinst has to do with this ? You can re-extract the sets with
 the proper flags ('xzpf' or similar) and it will be ok.
 
 		-- Rui Paulo
 
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