The following reply was made to PR pkg/33236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33236: Error in /pkgsrc/bootstrap
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:58:19 +0200

 Andreas Tannert wrote:
 >  The error occurs only in the latest versions. Perhaps it is possible to replace 
 >  the ^ with something else.
 
 All shells I know accept an exclamation mark meaning "not" instead of a 
 caret. So the proper fix would be to just replace [^0-9] with [!0-9].
 
 Roland