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