Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
To: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/10/2005 20:12:33
On 2005.10.10 20:48:13 +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
| On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
| > 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.
| 
| True, my point is why `postinstall' isn't checking permissions on files set 
| instead of only checking for f.e. obsolete files ?

I don't feel that's the job of postinstall. If you build.sh -U install=/ 
everything will work ok, AFAIK.
On the other hand, I think if you are extracting sets you should know
how to work with tar.

		-- Rui Paulo