I will try that.

But I downloaded the most recent pkgsrc.tar.gz they said it was 
updated every week, but maybe not :)

I did try a CVS update before and it halted when it got into the x11 
stuff.  I wish I could just exclude x11

Thankx
Brady

> I'm betting the pkgsrc.tar.gz is out of date.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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