Hello!

> Anyway, this has been a less than thoroughly enjoyable experience.
> I hope there's a quick resolution of this and that the recent i386
> snapshot can be rebuilt with a pkg_add that actually works.

Hubert went through all this at this weekend and already fixed
pkg_install/add/perform.c and requested a pulup request. So after
this version is pulled into pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install this problem
should be solved.

Greets
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