Re: port-i386/51358: /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51358; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/51358: /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:02:37 +0200

 Le 25/07/16 17:25, Martin Husemann a écrit :
 > The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51358; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: port-i386/51358: /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions
 > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:20:26 +0200
 > 
 >  On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:10:00PM +0000, richard%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >  > >Synopsis:       /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions
 >  
 >  For a strange value of "fake" - it obeys your umask.
 >  
 >  At least in the base tree we consider everything requiring exec permissions
 >  in the source tree a bug and fix it.
 >  
 >  Martin
 >  
 > 
 
 How is this to work for pkgsrc then? 
 
 Is there some script to fixup infrastructure scripts apparently needing to be executable?
 Or is the error encountered perhaps more a pkgsrc infrastructure 'bug'?
 
 Must say I haven't run across this before:-O (and I only use cvs for the NetBSD project repos)
 
 -- 
 Richard PALO