On 12th.Oct.2003 I wrote :

> A few days ago (7th.Oct) I tried adding SSL capability to=20
> Apache 1.3.x on a NetBSD 1.6.1-i386 box by installing=20
> precompiled package "ap_ssl", but this seem to have failed,=20
> due to various prerequisite directories being missing. =20
>   [...]
> tar: can't add file share/mod_ssl/cca.sh : No such file=20
> or directory
> tar: can't add file share/mod_ssl/gid-mkcert.sh : No such=20
> file or directory
> tar: can't add file share/mod_ssl/loadcacert.cgi : No=20
> such file or directory

[etc., etc. ... lots of these errors]

Well it turned out I had a damaged (truncated) ap-ssl package.  After
considering lots of possibilities, I decided to re-download the
package, and got quite a different result :

root  wheel    85504 Oct  6 20:19 ap-ssl-2.8.12nb1-bad.tgz
root  wheel   342188 Oct 17 14:26 ap-ssl-2.8.12nb1.tgz

and the newer ~340Kb package installed without any problem.

I downloaded both packages with wget, and don't remember any error
being reported by the first attempt ... but for all our sakes, I hope
there was one, and I just missed it.

Sorry for wasting my readers' time.

Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK