On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:55:06PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. It grumbled a bit about different versions like:
> 
> pkg_add: Warning: package
> `ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/i386/All/kde-3.5.3.tgz'

This is probably quite old. You should try
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/pkgsrc-2006Q3/NetBSD-3.0/i386/All/

> was built for a different version of the OS:
> pkg_add: NetBSD/i386 3.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/i386 3.1 (this host)
> 
> But then failed to find some packages, which I presume is more serious:
> 
> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'qt3-libs-3.3.6nb1', sorry.
> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
> pkg_add: autoload of dependency `qt3-libs>=3.3.6nb1' failed!
> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'qt3-libs>=3.3.6nb1', sorry.

It has been moved to
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/i386/vulnerable/
because of a security issue. But as I said you should probably use
pkgsrc-2006Q3 instead.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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