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From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbsd 1.0A source
Date: 31 Oct 1995 10:24:18 GMT
Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA
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References: <95Oct27.221010edt.9375@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> <MICHAELV.95Oct28233633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <jdd.815088275@cdf.toronto.edu> <MICHAELV.95Oct31002034@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.95Oct31002034@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <jdd.815088275@cdf.toronto.edu> jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:
>
>   michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>
>   >In article <95Oct27.221010edt.9375@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:
>
>   >On the other hand, you could go at it from the other direction.  A
>   >fairly recent (unofficial) binary snapshot is available on
>   >ftp.wasabi.com.  It should match closely the current sources.
>
>   That's a more reasonable option than pretending that the NetBSD-Current
>   sources correspond to the 1.0A binary release (six months out of date is
>   worse than one month), but I noticed the release on ftp.wasabi.com has the
>   same problem as 1.0A: the sources used to generate the release are not made
>   available.  Surely it cannot be too much trouble to tar up and release the
>   sources at the same time a binary release is cut?
>
>Not an unreasonable request.  But, also not as necessary, since recent
>sources and recent binary snapshots are usually close enough in
>functionality that you can get to one with the other.

If you aren't outside the US and Canada, you should be able to find much
more recent snapshots -- matching almost exactly the latest sources in the
1.1 branch of the NetBSD CVS tree, in some cases newer than what's 
available by sup -- on munitions.wasabi.com.

A new exportable snapshot, with install disks and generic kernels, should
be available on ftp.wasabi.com sometime today.

The corresponging 'domestic' subset should be available shortly 
thereafter on munitions.wasabi.com.

These snapshots are being built from sources extracted from the netbsd-1-1
branch by CVS only a few hours ago.  If you sup today, you should have
the same sources.
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                               tls@cloud9.net
 
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