Thank you all for your help. I did move /usr/pkgsrc to another location and pulled in (ftp) a fresh copy of current. That worked. Again, I can’t thank you guys enough. Well, maybe I could.
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 2:38 AM Roland Illig <roland.il...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 09.05.2020 12:53, Roland Illig wrote: > > On 08.05.2020 18:36, Ron Georgia wrote: > >> Thank you for pointing that out. I am updating now. > >> > >> I downloaded the NetBSD-9.99.60-amd64-install.img (date stamped May > >> 07, 2020) this morning and installed on my Lenovo X200. I did select > >> the option to download pkgsrc. I changed the path from stable to > >> current and that is what was pulled in. > > > > I didn't find NetBSD-9.99.60-amd64-install.img anywhere, therefore I > > used another ISO image. I installed NetBSD 8 in a VM and, like you, > > changed the pkgsrc path from stable to current. > > > > This way, pkgsrc was downloaded from > > https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/, where all files have been > > updated today in the morning. > > > > I would expect that these files are updated daily. There are exactly 7 > > days between 2020-05-02 and 2020-05-09 though, therefore it could also > > be that the files are updated weekly. I don't think that's the case, > > we'll see tomorrow. > > Indeed the archives in /pub/pkgsrc/current/ are only updated weekly. The > pkgsrc tree with the individual files is updated daily though. > > In such a case you can always "cvs update" locally since the archives > include the CVS metadata. > -- Ron Georgia “90% of my problems are due to ignorance, the other 10% is because I just don’t know any better.”
