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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 17:38:17 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 09:04:10 -0800
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In article <5e4qaa$n9u@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

   >(You
   >can check our Changelogs, in general they provide bug details, credit
   >the person who filed the PR, which camp it was filed to, and the PR
   >number).

   Where does one get a copy of these changelogs?

Well, for a particular subtree, one could do:

setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs2.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs
setenv CVS_RSH ssh
cvs -q get src
cvs log src/*/rlogind

This kind of thing is possible with both the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
repositories (though they do it differently).

This kind of thing is not possible with the NetBSD repository, which
has real net/2 and 4.4BSD derived source code in various branches of
the RCS tree and hence is not made available to the public in RCS
form.  Repeatedly we have been told that these `dirty files' are the
reason why the raw RCS files are not made available to the public.

I guess people like you who have CVS tree access but lack legal
permission to look at these old revisions are just staying away from
them...

Don't try to act as if I am making this up; I've had a few
conversations with NetBSD people about it; most recently with Christos
at Usenix


Now, how do we get access to old NetBSD files?  In particular, I am
interested in how the public-at-large can get a version of
src/sys/arch/alpha/alpha/locore.s from mid January.
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