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

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37447: pkg_create failure in bulk build leaves truncated
	.tgz file
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:50:26 +0100

 On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:50:02PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
 > 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?
 
 Because the package is as broken as the installed version currently is.
 I have no problem with the package target removing the file on error,
 but it shouldn't be the job of pkg_create.
 
 Joerg