Subject: Re: Problem using pkgsrc on NetBSD 3.0
To: None <jonesd@xmission.com>
From: Brian Asemi <asemisldkfj@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/29/2006 09:52:00
jonesd@xmission.com wrote:
> Hello. For several years, under previous versions of NetBSD on i386, I used
> pkgsrc via sup. A few weeks ago, I cleaned out all my package files and
> switched over to cvs. Last week, I updated, and since then, all attempts to
> rebuild packages fail with an error message about a missing file:
>
> make: "../../mk/../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk" line 3779: Could not find
> ../../mk/plist/bsd.plist.mk
>
> I checked my /usr/pkgsrc/mk directory, and there is no such file
> (bsd.plist.mk). Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominic Jones
>
I remember having a similar problem when I unpacked a few pkgsrc
tarballs a month or two ago. What's weird is a CVS checkout of pkgsrc
fixed the problem. What cvs commands did you run to check out the tree?
-Brian