Yeah must have been the source tree, works fine today!

cYa
Brady

> yes i noticed the same thing yesterday and i use sup to update pkgsrc
> every night.
> 
> i guess there is/was a problem with pkgsrc tree
> 
> GREG
> 
> > 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 I'm betting the pkgsrc.tar.gz is out of date.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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