Subject: mail/qmail-qfilter is deleting /var/tmp on pkg_delete
To: None <> From: Nathan Arthur <> List: tech-pkg Date:
10/22/2006 20:42:43 I have been using pkgsrc's bulk build
scripts to do bulk rebuilds of all  the packages I use on my
NetBSD 3.0 machine.  I don't build all packages  - just the
subset that I need.  I do the builds in a chroot sandbox (via
mk/bulk/mksandbox) and I've discovered a problem where the build
of the  qmail-qfilter package is deleting the sandbox's /var/tmp
directory  (which then causes later package builds the fail).
Per the email thread  below, it seems to be deleted during
pkg_delete because of something to  do with OWN_DIRS_PERMS.
I've dug as far as I can into the scripts to  try to understand
what's going wrong, and I don't know enough to go  further.
Amitai (below) suggested that I ask this list.  (Thanks,
Amitai!)  Any ideas?  This only seems to happen if /var/tmp is
empty at the time that  qmail-qfilter is pkg_delete'd, which
explains why this doesn't show up  for regu