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

From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
To: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, install-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/31543: postinstall omissions
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:12:33 +0100

 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