>For now, assuming you do want to rebuild the database (and there's nothing
>at all wrong with that, just to be confident everything is going to be fine)
>you can either use the NetBSD supplied Makefile (which has a workaround
>for this problem in it), or you can make sure that "." is in your path
>before you run zic.
>
>That is, if you are a sh (zsh, ksh, bash - any sane shell) user
>
>	PATH=.:$PATH zip -d /tmp australasia
>
>If you're a csh user you have to resort to horrors to make sure things
>get put back again later involing a sub-shell is the easiest way, as
>
>	( set path = (. $path) ; zic -d /tmp australasia )

there's always zic -y...or did you not notice that?

the yearistype script is not found because its never installed since
the *only* use for it is with rebuilding the time zone files, and
that's usually never done by *anyone* except the snapshot builders (in
this context).

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