John Refling wrote:

> Lets say I have detarred a copy of pkgsrc.tar.gz
> which is now obsolete.  Suppose I only install a
> few packages, or that I know only a few of my
> installed packages are out of date.
> 
> Is there a way from within print/tex (or something)
> to do a "make blah" which will ftp just the files
> in that subdirectory (eg, pkg, files, Makefile,
> patches, etc).  I need ftp, not cvs.

I use something like:

	cd /usr/pkgsrc
	mkdir -p print
	cd print
	ftp -o "|tar xpfz -" ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/print/teTeX.tar.gz
	tar xvfpz teTeX.tar.gz 

except I use a mirror instead of ftp.netbsd.org.  This relies on already
have all of /usr/pkgsrc/mk set up.

Simon.