On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I keep seeing messages like the following (just posted to netbsd-users@):
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> I just did a total fresh install of NetBSD 1.6.1 (i386) from scratch. No
> problems with the install, so the first thing I decided to do after the
> install was installing my favorite shell (bash). So, I downloaded
> pkgsrc.tar.gz from ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/ and
> after a little time unpacking I cd'ed into /usr/pkgsrc/shells/bash2 and
> typed: 'make'. Here's the output I got back:
>
> ---
> pkg_info: unknown option -- K
> ---------------------------------------
>
> My questions:
>
> Is there a ready-to-use pkg_install package they can pkg_add to fix this?
> (We should allow pkg_install to be packaged.)
>
> Is this a problem for NetBSD 1.6.2 about to be released?
>
> Or can pkgsrc's mk/ routines check for correct version and allow upgrading
> the pkg_install without using the -K (at first)?

This is mentioned in pkg/24336.  The error is still shown, but it should
then require the later pkg tools, and should allow installation of
pkg_install.

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