The homepage (pkgsrc.org) gives this command for $PKG_PATH: PKG_PATH="http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/" However, it seems that $(uname -m) should be $(uname -p). I found this by trying it on my MIPS Creator CI20 (evbmips mipsel).