>Number:         33449
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkgsrc documentation points to wrong link for downloading pkgsrc tarball
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 10 10:15:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Emmanuel Kasper
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
Interix windev 3.5 SP-8.0.1969.1 x86 Intel_x86_Family15_Model3_Stepping4

>Description:
Hello 
The documentation of pkgsrc in the paragraph of http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#bootstrap
proposes by default to download to download a CURRENT pkgsrc tarball ( ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-current.tar.gz ) instead of downloading the last stable branch.
( ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q1/pkgsrc-2006Q1.tar.gz )

I think this is very confusing for a pkgsrc first time user. The first time I used pksrc on netbsd 3.0, when I wanted to install a new gnome, pksrc started to recompile the full of gtk, because I made a cvs update before for security fixes.


>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
As by default we should offer download with a link to the last pkgsrc branch instead of current, as we do for netbsd releases.