John Murphy <netbsd001@freeode.co.uk> wrote:

>I've downloaded everything in packages/kde and everything beginning
>with qt3- which I'll put on my own (lan) ftp server, so I can set
>PKG_PATH to that and watch what happens when I pkg_add kde again.

Definitely gets in a loop. Ran it for 20 minutes with this result:

Filename                       Bytes  Times      Total

kde-3.5.3.tgz                   1570  x 1         1570
kdelibs-3.5.3.tgz           20712765  x 14   289978710
arts-1.5.3nb1.tgz            1533836  x 34    52150424
kdeaccessibility-3.5.3.tgz   8968676  x 2     17937352
kdebase-3.5.3nb1.tgz        30711610  x 5    153558050
kdeartwork-3.5.3.tgz        16864871  x 1     16864871

Grand total                                530,490,977

pkg_info shows no packages were added.

Manuel Bouyer said that qt3-libs-3.3.6nb1 was in the 'vulnerable'
directory, so I dl'd it from there to my kde folder and ran
pkg_add again. It gets further, but:

Next problem no p5-perl-headers-3.0nb3 and this one isn't in
'vulnerable'.

It gets into a similar loop. Ran it for 10 minutes this time:

Filename                       Bytes  Times      Total

kde-3.5.3.tgz                   1570  x 1         1570
kdeaddons-3.5.3nb1.tgz       2775507  x 1      2775507
kdemultimedia-3.5.3nb1.tgz   9918564  x 2     19837128
xine-arts-1.0.3anb3.tgz         8990  x 4        35960
xine-lib-1.0.3anb10.tgz      6117806  x 14    85649284
SDL-1.2.10nb2.tgz             547955  x 34    18630470
nas-1.8nb1.tgz                673547  x 84    56577948
cdparanoia-3.0.9.8nb5.tgz      96450  x 1        96450
lame-3.96.1nb4.tgz            360925  x 1       360925
libtunepimp-0.4.2nb2.tgz      615939  x 6      3695634
musicbrainz-2.1.4.tgz         192931  x 1       192931
taglib-1.4nb1.tgz             352664  x 1       352664
libtheora-1.0alpha6.tgz       195040  x 1       195040

Grand total                                188,401,511

Anyone know where I can find p5-perl-headers-3.0nb3?

I'd better send a problem report.
Should it go to 'pkg' or 'port-i386' do you think?

-- 
John.