The following reply was made to PR pkg/37447; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37447: pkg_create failure in bulk build leaves truncated
 .tgz file
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:47:18 +0100

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:00:01AM +0000, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 >  > Make pkg_create unlink the package .tgz file on failure.
 >  
 >  I don't think it should do that.
 
 I think it should. Having a broken file is worse than having no file at all.
 
 Why don't you think it should do that?
 
 Roland