The following reply was made to PR pkg/34059; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34059: tool wrappers are wrong for chown in unprivileged mode
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:55:27 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:05:00PM +0000, rillig@NetBSD.org wrote:
 > >Number:         34059
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       tool wrappers are wrong for chown in unprivileged mode
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 23 14:05:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Roland Illig
 > >Release:        NetBSD 3.0_STABLE
 > >Organization:
 > 	
 > >Environment:
 > 	
 > 	
 > System: NetBSD bacc.roland-illig.de 3.0_STABLE NetBSD 3.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Sat Jun 17 13:16:17 CEST 2006 build@baccf5ee.roland-illig.de:/home/build/3/2006-06/i386/work/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > 
 > When building packages in unprivileged mode, when packages run "chown",
 > the tool wrappers run the real chown instead of ignoring the request.
 > This may lead to build failures that haven't been there before.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > The "chown" and "chgrp" commands should be wrappers around ${TRUE}.
 
 Yes, I think this is the right way to do it.  I also think in the
 unprivileged mode, "install" should also be a tool that is a special
 wrapper that ignores -o and -g.
 
 	Cheers,
 
 	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>