this is a bug in pkg_add which has been fixed in more recent versions.  If
you have a pkgsrc tree, the thing to do is 

cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install && make install && make clean

-Dan


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm having a problem with pkg_add in my NetBSD box (1.4.2). It only
> happens with "teTeX-share-1.0.2.tgz". After running for a while it
> quits clumsily with the message "Segmentation fault". In the past
> I also tried it with "teTeX-share-1.0.tgz" and the same thing
> happened. I'm just that is something related to the size of the
> package (>33M). Thinking that it could be a problem of disk space
> in /var, and since I have plenty of disk space in /usr so I ran it
> as:
> 
> pkg_add -t /usr/tmp/instmp.XXX teTeX-share-1.0.2.tgz
> 
> Did anybody experience or not similar problems with this package?
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Dan
>