>>Whenever I use pkg_add I also get warnings that it couldn't record the package
>>contents in /var, "You're on your own!"  How nasty is that?
> 
> Sounds like you do not have a /var/db/pkg, or that it has wrong
> permissions.

I do not have a /var/db/pkg.

And the 1.3.2 sysinst didn't create one either.

This weekend I evacuated my data drive and let sysinst run wild on it. Even
though I asked for a full installation, it did not extract any of the source
packages (src, xsrc, or pkgsrc). I asked for a "full" installation and got a
"typical" installation.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com