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Old 13th February 2012
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post
the error message is "<pkgname> is built with a newer pkg_name ".. there must be some discord between installed release (5.1) and the pkg_path I am using
That does sound plausible, although I don't remember off-hand seeing that error message.

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how do I know that the right packages should belong to -eg.- <pkgsrc_2011Q4) > and not to -eg.- <pkgsrc_2011Q1> ? I prefer not to upgrade at this stage because I've already downloaded more than 12g of 5.1 packages from here:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pack.../i386/5.1/All/
I don't know the answer to the question. But, what I'd probably try in that case is to find a single package, with no pre-requisites, and that's not too big, and try to download it from other directories and see if you still get the same problem when trying to install it. FWIW, the PKG_PATH I use (for 5.1.0_PATCH) is

http://nyftp.netbsd.org./pub/pkgsrc/...D/i386/5.0/All

That said, if the packages you downloaded (12G, WOW!) don't match your system, then one or the other would have to change, no? I.e., either up/down-grade system or get new packages?
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