Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint
To: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/07/2005 10:42:47
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:38:36PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	rillig
> Date:		Sun Nov  6 22:38:36 UTC 2005
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint: TODO
> 
> Log Message:
> + check for magic numbers like 0755, 755, 644

If this is an attempt to eradicate octal numbers from chmod(1)
statements, please do not do this.  There are numerous occasions when
absolute modes are needed and essential, and a pkglint warning for
those statements would quickly just become noise.

Thanks,
Alistair