On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> After someone else asked me the same question, I'm having this problem 
> myself now: How is one supposed to update the pkg_install pkg?

Greg Woods has posted patches.  Here are two recent messages
containing slightly different patches:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/12/10/0010.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/02/10/0071.html

--apb (Alan Barrett)