Re: pkg/50649: checkperms should probably not return error with -ff if all errors fixed

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:30:01PM +0000, richard%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> >Description:
> as mentioned on pkgsrc-users@, it has been noticed that if
> 'checkperms -cff' is used, even if the protection errors detected
> are fixed, an error is returned... which is not very intuitive.

Indepent of anything else, packages should not depend on checkperms to
fix things up. It is not run for PKG_DEVELOPER=no by default and errors
only visible in that case are horrible...

It makes me wonder if the autofix variable shouldn't be just removed in
first place, it makes no sense.

Joerg