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> From: Ian P. Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat Feb 16, 2002  10:24:46 AM US/Eastern
> To: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@ms25.url.com.tw>
> Subject: Re: Best way to move to current
>
>
> On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 02:30 AM, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:40:09PM -0500, Ian P. Thomas wrote:
>>> 	I have been following the list recently and have seen many ways of
>>> getting up to date with current.  rsync, cvsup, anoncvs, sup.  I
>>> currently have a 56k connection and wondered what the best way to go
>>> would be?  I can run it over night.
>>
>> I suggest for anoncvs.
>> Original, I used sup. But after I used anoncvs, I felt it is faster 
>> than sup
>> when updating source and it is more flexible to be used.
>> (eg. you can only update the 'module' that you want)
>> About the other two ways, I not yet tried. ;)
>>
>>> 	Also, is current stable enough to use?  If not, what branch? or
>>
>> In most of time. ;)
>>
>>> tree? should I download?  I am particularly interested in the moused
>>
>> To install a recent snapshot is a good start point:
>> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/ARCH/snapshot/
>> See also:
>> 	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/index.html
>>
> 	Thanks for the quick response.  I found the snapshot, but the only 
> source distribution set in there is
>
> syssrc.tgz..
>
> 	However, all the binary sets look to be in there own directory.  
> The install notes for 1.5.3 list all the source sets and their 
> respective sizes but they aren't in
>
> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020205-1.5.3_ALPHA/source/
> sets
>
> 	Should I just grab syssrc.tgz, install it and build a new kernel, 
> and then run anoncvs to update the changes in the rest of my source 
> file from 1.5.2?
>
> Ian
>
> Of course it runs NetBSD
> www.netbsd.org
>
> 	
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