Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/08/03/0008.html

(Sorry for not replying earlier; I hadn't swept through
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/ in a while, and I wasn't included
in the To: or Cc: list.)

Yes, locate's database is only updated in the weekly script.  I wasn't
emphatic enough: There was NO libmad package (i.e., ...pkgsrc/*/libmad/
dir).  I only mentioned locate because I *could* locate the libmad
libraries.  (It appears that the ...pkgsrc/audio/mad package installed
those, but mplayer & ogle both want libmad, *not* mad.)

I fixed the problem by doing the suggested cvs checkout.  Then I hit
another missing pkgsrc directory, so I did a complete checkout of
all of pkgsrc, and finally was able to build mplayer again.

Maybe my use of cvs was incorrect, but I thought that "update" was supposed
to get new directories as well as update old ones, so that "cvs
update" should have given me an update of all of pkgsrc, not just the
existing files and directories.


Anyway, sorry for being unclear.  The problem is solved, though why
it happened in the first place isn't clear to me.


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