Hi,

I did quick install and then I executed 'pkg_add -iv $packages'
under root user.

The output get spammed with:

ftp: /root/.netrc: Permission denied

IIUC this is caused by 'drop_priviledge_and_setup_env' function
in PackageRepository.pm which changes uid to '_pfetch' which
spawns /bin/sh that cannot access root's homedir.

OpenBSD 5.9 #1880 Sat Feb 20 2016

* su - root
* export PKG_PATH=$path
* pkg_add -vi $package
* observe terminal

j.

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