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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50649; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/50649: checkperms should probably not return error with -ff
 if all errors fixed
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:48:34 +0100

 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