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

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:13:27 +0100

 On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:49:02PM +0000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
 >  
 >  True, my point is why `postinstall' isn't checking permissions on files set 
 >  instead of only checking for f.e. obsolete files ?
 
 Because the required permissions aren't known.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk