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From: pse5327@siemens.co.at (Abolghassem Salahi)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] latest sources available...
Message-ID: <1993May24.094241.6711@siemens.co.at>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 09:42:41 GMT
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cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>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:

Just finished the installation on thursaday night and read this on friday. :-(
Oh well, copy the later version and install it again. But then I read on:
>how can you get them?

>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.

I'm confused. Is this an 'upgrade' release or what ? If I copy the files,
say ... NOW! ... am I going to get a working system if I install it ?

This seems to me a very rash thing to do. I appreciate that no suitable 
tool/method has yet been located/written/devised for offering patches, 
but until one is would it not be better to wait ? 

>chris demetriou
>cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
>comments/flames/etc. to: netbsd-comments@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu

I saw the netbsd-comments address, but I do think that the discussion
on this policy, and development of a patching policy needs to be discussed
in the widest forum.

Alexis (alexis@liska.ext.uniba.sk)