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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!news.sba.com!pacifier!deraadt 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 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Feb15103817@zeus.pacifier.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <1997Feb14.090136@screwem.citi.umich.edu> <5e2sb7$62a@panix2.panix.com> <DERAADT.97Feb14205132@zeus.pacifier.com> <5e4qaa$n9u@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: cjs@cynic.portal.ca's message of 15 Feb 1997 09:04:10 -0800 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5463 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. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night.