I'm betting the pkgsrc.tar.gz is out of date. If you can, use anonymous
CVS to get the pkgsrc stuff, that's what I ended up doing recently.

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/

Follow the instructions as per current but rather then checking out src
or syssrc you'd checkout pkgsrc

cvs checkout -P pkgsrc

Regards
Nigel

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:13:27PM -2800, Brady 'C-Man' Owens wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm new to the list, and heard this was a good resource of 
> information.
> I been using FreeBSD for a little over a year and recently decided 
> to try nBSD for my FTP server.
> 
> Everything so far has went well, or at least to the point I could fix it 
> and understand what was going on.  But the problem I have 
> encountered that I can't figure out is with the ports/packages 
> collection.  When I get the pkgsrc.tar.gz, I decompress it into the 
> /usr directory then go to what I would like to compile and add, for 
> instance I been trying to get bash2 compiled and added as well as a 
> few other programs.  But every one I try fails with the error relating 
> to the PLIST in the directory; saying "Error: don't know how to make 
> PLIST"
> 
> Could someone help me out and tell me what I might or might not be 
> doing?  Or is there something I might be missing?
> 
> Thankx!
> Brady
> 

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