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From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 15 Feb 1997 22:00:28 GMT
Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit
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In-reply-to: cjs@cynic.portal.ca's message of 15 Feb 1997 11:09:21 -0800
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In article <5e51l2$gde@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
   Where do I get a copy of the commit logs, Theo? FreeBSD gives them
   out, even NetBSD makes them available on a maling list, why not
   you?

Of course the Changelogs also available via a mailing list.  It is
called source-changes@openbsd.org and you can get access to it via
our majordomo server.

If you don't like anoncvs, you can use CTM to fetch the entire cvs
tree in RCS form.  That has the Changelog files included.

The Changelog file is not copied into the ftp mirrors because it
would get copied everyday and I calculate the daily bandwidth needed
to move it from repository machine -> mirror sites to be unneccessary.

Now, Curt, YOU KNOW ALL THIS.  You HAVE BEEN on the web page that
describes the mailing lists and all these other things. You are simply
trying to be troublesome.

   Or do you have some plan to stay ahead of everyone else in
   the security realm by taking other systems' fixes and merging them
   into OpenBSD, but making it as difficult as possible to find OpenBSD
   fixes so they can be merged into other systems?

I wonder how you come to that conclusion when our source tree is
freely available in two different forms and the NetBSD tree IS NOT.

   As for the NetBSD repository not being available for public access,
   yes, that is currently the case, we agree that it's a problem, and
   we're working on it.

Yup, because the NetBSD tree has illegal source code in it.
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