> > If I usr "make distribution" in src/etc, and mtree exists because something
> > was corrected, then the make fails.
> 
> this is not a bug.  there's no reason that mtree should have to
> correct any of the permissions on the directories.

OK, let me change this one to a "change-request". What I have done
at times is when the BSD.*.dist files are updated, I will cd to
/usr/src/etc and do "make distrib-dirs" mainly 'cause I can never
remember all the args to mtree myself.

> If you'll notice, it *doesn't* barf when it has to *create* the
> directories, only if it has to change the permissions on them.

OK - not bug.

> If it has to change the permissions on them, then something else
> happened wrong someplace -- e.g. in a previous 'make distribution'
> into that DESTDIR, something clobbered the correct permissions
> on the directory in question.

Yeah, like someone has changed their idea of the contents of the mtree
files, and I want to update my *main* tree - like "DESTDIR=/" :-(

Ta,
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Peter Galbavy				e-mail: P.Galbavy@wonderland.org
Wonderland				  work: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk

	  "And you will know exactly who you are, forever,
		by knowing what it is that you love."

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