Where abouts in the x11 dir.  If it was on the x11/xwrits then it was 
probably running back through the pkgsrc tree deleting empty dirs, this takes 
time.  It hasn't actually hung.

Cheers,
Chris

On Thursday 08 November 2001 00:29, Brady 'C-Man' Owens wrote:
> 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 I'm betting the pkgsrc.tar.gz is out of date.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 >
> >
> > --