On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:08:19PM +0000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Oh, and after discovering that the NetBSD "stable" branch is outdated, it 
> would be nice if the pkg_install package could actually be installed, 
> instead of just saying:
> 
> 	...
> 	===> Installing for pkg_install-20050210
> 	===> Becoming root@miyu to install pkg_install.
> 	/usr/bin/su Terminal type is vt220.
> 	===> pkg_install-20050204 is already installed - perhaps an older 
> 	version?
> 	*** If so, you may use either of:
> 	***  - "pkg_delete pkg_install-20050204" and "/usr/bin/make 
> 	reinstall" to upgrade properly
> 	***  - "/usr/bin/make update" to rebuild the package and all of its 
> 	dependencies
> 	***  - "/usr/bin/make replace" to replace only the package without 
> 	re-linking
> 	***    dependencies, risking various problems.
> 	*** Error code 1
> 
> 	Stop.
> 
> Of course a "make deinstall" doesn't help.
> 
> After someone else asked me the same question, I'm having this problem 
> myself now: How is one supposed to update the pkg_install pkg?
> 
> This is annoying...
> 
> 
>  - Hubert
Hello Hubert.

Look this :
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2004/11/23/0007.html

regards
Karol Marchewka