On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:42:55PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> Before removing prefix, fix the permissions. Everything inside that
> directory must be writable and all directories must be searchable.
> NetBSD's chmod has an option -P which I would have liked to use, but
> POSIX requires only -R to be implemented. Therefore, it is possible that
> permissions of files outside the prefix are changed due to symlinks.
> 
> The client-clean program promises to clean $prefix, so fail if that is
> not possible. A common cause for this is that some files inside have
> their flags set (see chflags(1) on NetBSD).

Thanks for breaking the scripts for the recommented configuration of
pbulk. When was this change discussed? There are at least two major
issues:
(a) chmod before rm is *slow*. If you seriously believe that the removal
of flags is an issue, it should be done *after* the first rm -rf and
that run twice.
(b) The existance check and whether the cleanup is successful doesn't
work for the two major cases I care:
- ${prefix} itself is a mount point. This is a prerequirement to have /
being read-only.
- e.g. Linux procfs is mounted under emul/linux/proc.

> When installing the bootstrap kit, the source may be either a regular
> file (which is then assumed to be a tar archive) or a directory (which
> is copied directly). The latter option is new and allows for easier
> changes of files once the bulk build has started.

This is another thing I would have prefered to see discussed first. I
don't think it is as helpful. I am really strong on seeing bulk builds
use the output of mkbinarykit without any further changes. All that is
left for that is to be able to tell it to gzip the output and to be able
to specify the output name.

Joerg