Hi all,

I've recently upgraded from 1.4.2 to 1.5 on my SPARC 1/1+ class
machines.

I am having major difficulties installing packages via FTP (over ppp -
connection works perfectly).

e.g., if I attempt to
    pkg_add -v
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/lang/perl-5.6.0nb3.tgz

The installation will churn away for some time but will fail like so:

...
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel    22015 Dec 18 23:35 2000
lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlsyn.pod
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel    40800 Dec 18 23:35 2000
lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlthrtut.pod
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel    27634 Dec 18 23:35 2000
lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perltie.pod
pkg_add: expect: select() timeout

ftp> cd .
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel   185835 Dec 18 23:35 2000
lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perltoc.pod
tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
pkg_add: Cannot fetch file (-1!=226)!
Error on
unpackURL('ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/All/perl-base-5.6.0.tgz',
'/var/tmp/instmp.01521v')
pkg_add: HF: fileGetURL('(null)',
'ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/All/perl-base-5.6.0.tgz')
failed

ftp> close
pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed
nyquist: {13}


I don't recall having this problem with 1.4.2. I take it many binaries
have not yet been built for 1.5/sparc?

Toby