On Wednesday 11 February 2004 19:51, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Right; I've always gotten that warning, too....
>
> You may need to fall back to an older version of pkgsrc -- but I"m
> guessing now even more than before.

Yes, I even tried the opposite: I upgraded to the latest pkgtools on another 
(working) NetBSD (1.6, not 1.6.1) machine, and copied the binaries to the new 
NetBSD machine (1.6.1), but then I get the following error:

---
pkg_info: option requires an argument -- e
usage: pkg_info [-BbcDdFfIikLmNnpqRrSsVvh] [-e package] [-l prefix]
                pkg-name [pkg-name ...]
       pkg_info -a [flags]
make: "/usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash2/../../mk/compiler/../../mk/compiler/gcc.mk" 
line 311: Malformed conditional (!empty(_LANGUAGES.gcc))
make: "/usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash2/../../mk/compiler/../../mk/compiler/gcc.mk" 
line 348: if-less endif
make: "/usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash2/../../mk/compiler/../../mk/compiler/gcc.mk" 
line 348: Need an operator
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash2
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So, no problem at the -K argument, but it hangs on the -e argument this time. 
I installed the latest pkgsrc on the 1.6 machine as well, so they should be 
identical :-/

Thank you for your reply.

 - Vincent van Scherpenseel