> If I remember properly 'make fetch-list' will produce something suitable
   done - it make some not-very-nice output to stdout like this:
   ===> archivers
   ===> archivers/arc
   /bin/mkdir -p /usr/src/pkgsrc/distfiles/
   cd /usr/src/pkgsrc/distfiles/ && [ -f arc521e.pl8.tar.Z -o -f arc521e.pl8.tar.Z ] || /usr/bin/ftp ftp://ftp.kiarchive.ru/pub/unix/arcers/arc521e.pl8.tar.Z  || /usr/bin/ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/distfiles/arc521e.pl8.tar.Z  || /usr/bin/ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/arc521e.pl8.tar.Z  || echo arc521e.pl8.tar.Z not fetched

Actually, everything except the "===>" lines are fine.  The checks are
good, for example, in case you get part way through downloading and
later restart using the same script.

Would it be possible to make the comment out the "===>" lines, or echo
them, or something, so that the actual output would in fact be a
usable script?

Cheers,
Brook