On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:24:43PM +0200, dieter roelants wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:03:46 -0400
>"George Georgalis" <george@galis.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Humm, I tried the following script...
>> 
>> #:: Set parameters to obtain the NetBSD sources, and download.
>> lastsrc () { # Return the dated path of the last netbsd-3 tgz
>>         echo "ls -rx" \
>>         | ftp -4 ftp://ftp.netbsd.net/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/ \
>>         | awk '{print $1}'
>>         }
>> mkdir -p /usr/local/dist/netbsd-3
>> cd /usr/local/dist/netbsd-3
>> ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.net/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/$(lastsrc)/source/sets/src.tgz
>> cd /
>> tar xzf /usr/local/dist/netbsd-3/src.tgz
>> #:: Update the src archive, to the cvs tag.
>> cd /usr/src && cvs -q upd -dP
>> 
>> but given the amount of files being updated, I doubt very
>> seriously that snapshot contained recent source, or maybe there
>> is something else out of sync. It _seems_ it is updating every
>> file in src, there is already a new snapshot since I started the
>> update.
>
>You need to get sharesrc.tgz, sysrc.tgz, and gnusrc.tgz as well.

thanks, this seems all what I need.

it seems odd that there is no "src.tgz" on the ftp server which
represents the corresponding netbsd /cvsroot src checkout, but I
see how these archives could also be useful independently.

// George


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