Re: How to bootstrap pkgsrc on a system without ftp or file

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:32:28PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>       Bootstrapping pkgsrc on a system which needs both ftp and file
>       seems to choke at the moment - it tries to build nbftp and
>       finds it needs file... but then chokes on downloading the
>       distfiles for libtool or file.

Could you please try to explain your problem first? It is kind of hard
to guess what issues you are seeing from this more or less undescribtive
error message. I can only guess, but it sounds like you hit the problem
of missing termcap on your platform. In that case you might have more
luck with FETCH_USING=fetch.

Joerg