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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
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Subject: [NetBSD] latest sources available...
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Date: 20 May 93 12:27:46
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Sorry this took so long in coming and is coming in the form that it
is, but...
Updated NetBSD sources are now, and will in the future be available from:
sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu 128.32.240.164
pub/NetBSD-current
(if sites would like to mirror these, please send me a piece of mail
to that effect, including the site name, ip address, and path name
to the archive location, once you have the mirror set up.)
how can you get them?
currently:
nfs mount (read-only) /b/anon_ftp (and the in pub/NetBSD-current)
ftp (& ftp mirroring) pub/NetBSD-current
soon, you'll be able to use SUP to get the latest sources as they
become available, and info on how to use that will be made available
when that service works.
take note of several things:
(1) the NetBSD-current directory is a nightly snapshot of
our source tree. it's not guaranteed to be perfect,
or even working, on any given day.
(2) if you want to update your system to the newest sources
for everything, BEWARE: the ".db" database format
has changed due to the inclusion of updated versions
of the database routines. If you want to upgrade
your system, you're taking matters into your own hands,
and you can't expect us to help you out too much.
(3) if you want to just update your kernel sources, you'll
need the "sys.tar.z" and "config.tar.z" tar files
from pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files. (not only
has the kernel changed considerably, config has
had to change, too.)
the tar.z files in pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files are updated weekly,
early sunday mornings, and the rest of the trees under pub/NetBSD-current
are updated nightly.
unfortunately, because of lack of time and manpower, we are not able
to provide diffs from NetBSD 0.8. Because of the number of files
we have moved and changed, CVS is simply not an adequate tool for the
job, and there is no one in the NetBSD "core team" which has the time
to create such a tool. if you create one and it works for our
purposes, we would be very interested in using it.
chris demetriou
cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
comments/flames/etc. to: netbsd-comments@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass