The following reply was made to PR pkg/34695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34695
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:25:35 +0000

 The awk code used in origianl patch is somewhat NetBSD dependent - other
 awk implementations may missing some features, like systime(). So, taking
 Solaris' nawk as a lowest denominator, please use the patch below:
 
 
 Index: fetch.mk
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/fetch.mk,v
 retrieving revision 1.20
 diff -u -r1.20 fetch.mk
 --- fetch.mk	27 Jul 2006 18:48:03 -0000	1.20
 +++ fetch.mk	5 Oct 2006 15:05:54 -0000
 @@ -30,10 +30,21 @@
  _BUILD_DEFS+=	_DISTFILES _PATCHFILES
  
  # Set up _ORDERED_SITES to work out the exact list of sites for every file,
 -# using the dynamic sites script, or sorting according to the master site
 -# list or the patterns in MASTER_SORT or MASTER_SORT_REGEX as appropriate.
 +# using the dynamic sites script, or ordering according to the master site
 +# list, MASTER_SORT_RANDOM randomization feature, or the patterns in
 +# MASTER_SORT or MASTER_SORT_REGEX as appropriate.
  # No actual sorting is done until _ORDERED_SITES is expanded.
  #
 +.if defined(MASTER_SORT_RANDOM) && !empty(MASTER_SORT_RANDOM:M[yY][eE][sS])
 +_MASTER_RAND_AWK= BEGIN { srand(seed) } {				\
 +		n = split($$0, site);					\
 +		for (i = n; i > 0; i--) {				\
 +			ir = int(rand() * i + 1);			\
 +			t = site[i]; site[i] = site[ir]; site[ir] = t;	\
 +			print site[i]; } }
 +_RAND_SITES_CMD= | ${AWK} -v seed=$$$$ '${_MASTER_RAND_AWK}' | tee /tmp/sites
 +.endif
 +
  .if defined(MASTER_SORT) || defined(MASTER_SORT_REGEX)
  MASTER_SORT?=
  MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=
 @@ -44,9 +55,12 @@
  _MASTER_SORT_AWK+= /${srt:C/\//\\\//g}/ { good["${srt:S/\\/\\\\/g}"] = good["${srt:S/\\/\\\\/g}"] " " $$0 ; next; }
  .  endfor
  _MASTER_SORT_AWK+= { rest = rest " " $$0; } END { n=split(gl, gla); for(i=1;i<=n;i++) { print good[gla[i]]; } print rest; }
 +_SORT_SITES_CMD+= | ${AWK} '${_MASTER_SORT_AWK}'
 +.endif
  
 -_SORT_SITES_CMD= ${ECHO} $$unsorted_sites | ${AWK} '${_MASTER_SORT_AWK}'
 -_ORDERED_SITES= ${_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} `${_SORT_SITES_CMD:S/\\/\\\\/g:C/"/\"/g}`
 +.if defined(_RAND_SITES_CMD) || defined(_SORT_SITES_CMD)
 +_SORT_SITES_FULL_CMD= ${ECHO} $$unsorted_sites ${_RAND_SITES_CMD} ${_SORT_SITES_CMD}
 +_ORDERED_SITES= ${_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} `${_SORT_SITES_FULL_CMD:S/\\/\\\\/g:C/"/\"/g}`
  .else
  _ORDERED_SITES= ${_MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE} $$unsorted_sites
  .endif
 @@ -245,8 +259,8 @@
  		fi;							\
  	done
  	${_PKG_SILENT}${_PKG_DEBUG}set -e;				\
 -	unsorted_sites="${SITES.${.TARGET:T:S/=/--/}} ${_MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}"; \
 -	sites="${_ORDERED_SITES}";					\
 +	unsorted_sites="${SITES.${.TARGET:T:S/=/--/}}";			\
 +	sites="${_ORDERED_SITES} ${_MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}";		\
  	cd ${.TARGET:H:S/\/${DIST_SUBDIR}$//} &&			\
  	${_FETCH_CMD} ${_FETCH_ARGS} ${.TARGET:T} $$sites
  	${_PKG_SILENT}${_PKG_DEBUG}					\
 
 
 The defaults/mk.conf patch still with no changes.
 
 --
 Mishka.
 
 P.S. Thanks to salo for warning me on this problem.