On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Brook Milligan wrote:

>    cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
>    make clean
>    now update the files in this directory from
>    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/
>    now do
>    make install
> 
> Shouldn't "make clean; make; make install" work (or just skip the
> plain make since the install target will do that anyway)?  I.e.,
> shouldn't the correct stuff be automatically fetched without needing
> to do it manually?  I thought that is what I always do, anyway.

this will just rebuild the last version that you have pkgsrc for as
opposed to the most recent version available.  I should mention though
that, of course if you're using sup or something to keep pkgsrc updated,
then you can just do 'make clean ; make install' as you said.

-Dan