Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok@gmx.net> responds to me:

>> I'm trying to find the corresponding source tarball, but
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q4 seems to
>> contains just the binary package distributions for (some of) the
>> various ports, as opposed to pkgsrc-current (and its tarball
>> pkgsrc-current.tar.gz), which contains the source tree that I am
>> looking for.

>  Try ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/2005Q4 

Yup, there it is; thanks!  I have noted the location for future
reference, but now that I have what appears to be a sane current
pkgsrc, I might as well continue with that unless I find problems
with it.

>> With luck tomorrow evening I will be able to install packages.  :-)

I was delayed, but yes, it works now.  I have "vim", finally!
And soon to have many more...  Thanks, all!


Anne.
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