> The Qube2 saga continues, but I think this is NetBSD specific as opposed
> to any port specific monkeyness.
>
> In attempting to install php I cd'd to /usr/pkgsrc/www/php4 and did the
> usual 'make install clean'
> The pkg proggy attempted to get php but failed with this error message:
>
> => Couldn't fetch php-4.2.3.tar.gz - please try to retrieve this
> => file manually into /usr/pkgsrc_distfiles/ and try again.
>
> so I did, and it's definitely there as shown:
>
> root@kenmore /pkgsrc/www/php4$ ls -al /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles |grep php
> -rw-r--r--   1 root   wsrc       5452 Nov 20 17:37 php-4.2.3.tar.gz
<snippped "repeated failure" content>

This is the followup:

Well, I wized up and installed from source (php.net) *and* got a
substantially newer version to boot. php-4.3.9 to be painstaingly exact
about it.

It seems like the pkg version just didn't want to install no matter
*what* I did (or didn't do) so this seemed to be the easiest way.

Is this a common experience? I can't believe I'm the only individual who
has come to this rather unremarkable conclusion.....or have I fallen
into a trap yet to reveal itself by jumping outside of the pkgsrc tree?

Time will tell I guess. It's compiling now as we speak.

Warm Regards - as always - to all
-Colin