No package installation method works

[Sascha Wildner]

On 10/20/2010 21:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly test
system setup with Dragonfly BSD.  This is an install under
virtualisation (qemu or Xen).
The actual install went smoothly, but the package install have failed
utterly.
I found http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToPkgsrc/ and have
followed the various methods suggested there.  None works for me.
# uname -a
DragonFly biko-dflybsd64.gmplib.org 2.6-RELEASE DragonFly v2.6.3-RELEASE #10: Mon May  3 09:57:53 PDT 2010     root at pkgbox64.dragonflybsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src-misc/sys/X86_64_GENERIC  x86_64
Method 1:

     # pkg_radd bash
     pkg_add: Error: package `bash-4.1nb1' was built with a newer pkg_install version
     pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
(As far as I can tell, I am using the latest release of DragonFly.  And
even if I didn't, shouldn't it be possible to install a package with the
existing tools?)
Yea, it's an issue. I know there is a workaround, but I forgot it at the 
moment. The real solution would be to provide packages that work for 2.6.3.

Method 2:

     # cd /usr
     # make pkgsrc-create
     If problems occur you may have to rm -rf pkgsrc and try again.
     mkdir -p /usr/pkgsrc
     cd /usr/pkgsrc&&  git init
     Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/pkgsrc/.git/
     cd /usr/pkgsrc&&   git remote add origin git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git
     cd /usr/pkgsrc&&  git fetch origin
     fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
     *** Error code 128
     Stop in /usr.

(This is not a temporary problem.  I retried this several consecutive days.)
Yes, /usr/Makefile was changed, and it was MFC'd to the 2.6 branch but 
the ISO is older and we have no ISO reflecting the latest on the 2.6 
branch. You can take the /usr/Makefile from here:

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/etc/Makefile.usr

which should work.

Method 3 (from docs/handbook/handbook-pkgsrc-sourcetree-using/):

     # cd /usr
     # cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs.us.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
     # cd shells/bash
     # make
     Unknown modifier '!'
     Unknown modifier '!'

     Unknown modifier '!'

     ...
     "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk", line 717: if-less endif
     Unknown modifier 'u'
     Variable PKG_OPTIONS is recursive.

(It is not my typo to get netbsd's code.  This is what I am instructed
to do by the DragonFly web at the directory indicated.)
The problem here is that you are using make instead of bmake (which 
needs to be used for pkgsrc things).

Sascha