you need to get a new copy from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/*

Your copy still lists the older version in
pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/Makefile

just do

% cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/
% rm Makefile pkg/* files/* patches/*
% ftp
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/

ftp>  prompt
ftp>  mget *
ftp>  quit
% make
% su
% make install



-Dan


On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Eric Fox wrote:

> 
> When attempting to compile a package, I get the following:
> 
>  red:# make
>  >> Checksum OK for xfmail-1.3.tar.gz.
>  ===>  Extracting for xfmail-1.3
>  Your package tools need to be updated to 1999/01/19 versions.
>  The installed package tools were last updated on 1998/11/07.
>  Please make and install the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install package.
>  *** Error code 1
> 
>  Stop.
>  *** Error code 1
> 
>  Stop.
>  *** Error code 1
> 
>  Stop.
>  red:#
> 
> 
> I've cd'd the above directory and issued a make there:
> 
>  red:# cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
>  red:# make
>  red:# make install
>  red:# 
> 
> 
> It doesn't appear to have done anything.  Attempts to compile the
> package again fail exactly as before.
> 
> 
>   /\---/\  Eric J Fox
>  /  o o  \ mailto:eric@fox.phoenix.az.us
>  \.\   /./ -----------------------------
>     \@/     "Of course it runs NetBSD."
> 
>