>> well...that's annoying.  i guess.  when i said yes to reproducible
>> earlier, i meant that i could get the same error out of pkg_add when
>> trying to install the bing package.  but that was before i fixed my
>> package system.  :)
>
>pkg_add now? I seem to remember that it was pkg_create in your previous
>mail. Can you please give the appropriate details then?

sorry, yes.  pkg_create was the original offender.  i've never noticed
any problems with pkg_add.  and the error that i got i can't
reproduce.  i think i'm about to chalk it up to "pkg_create was
writing to pkgdb.byfile.db and i hit control-c".

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