|  We could go through pkgsrc and privatise all of our definitions, but
|  this is the first occurrence I've heard of in nearly 8 years of pkgsrc,
|  and I've yet to be convinced of the benefits of such a move. All CBA
|  gratefully received.

  How about checking that all the commands actually are there?
Something along the lines of

	for cmd in LS TAR AWK ... ; do
		test -x $(($cmd)) || { echo "Oh my bad, no $cmd..." ; exit 1 }
	done

  somewhere in bsd.pkg.mk ?

  I'm not convinced that 1 incident every 8 years is worth it though.

	mjl