your best bet probably is to download the tarball of pkgsrc, install cvs, then 
cvs update your existing pkgsrc.

ftp.netbsd.org is down for a while for hardware upgrades so you may want to 
use a mirror near you. (http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp)

--joe

On Saturday 10 August 2002 16:35, Hume Smith wrote:
> On Saturday August 10, 2002 05:13 pm, you wrote:
> > I usually just FTP 'pkgsrc.tgz' from, e.g.,
> > 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.3/source/sets/pkgsrc.tgz
> > and proceed from there.  What's the difficulty?
>
> A documentation problem, apparently; i didn't know that was there. I got
> used to pulling pkgsrc from pkgsrc. (In fact I almost didn't notice the
> difference between that what I did that no longer worked.) Is this a new
> set? (I can't check right now because ftp.netbsd.org is refusing FTP)