Hello!

> They're non-fatal; the package in question gets installed, but the messages
> indicate to me that something in the package does not correspond correctly
> to what is actually being installed on the system.

Will you tell us which packages did cause this? What version of the
pkg_utilities do you use?

To me it looks as if the PLIST of this package was not ok.

Please note that this should be discussed in tech-pkg@netbsd.org
rather than current-users.

Greets
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