Subject: Re: Tracking -current
To: Reed Shadgett <aiko@antigone.net>
From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/26/2001 17:08:40
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:50:15PM +0530, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > Somebody had given a link to a site containing -current ISO images.  On
> > the same site, I found the following files as below:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.plathome.co.jp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/
> 
> Weekly tar files of NetBSD-current sources (they're hosting a
> ftp.netbsd.org mirror).  The other stuff under that NetBSD-current
> directory is extracted sources. :)
> 
> This is the same as ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/ et al.
> 

So if I want to start tracking -current, what all should I get ?  Just
the files in this link, or anything more ?  

> > On the same site, I also found this link:
> > ftp://ftp.plathome.co.jp/pub/IPv6/kame-20010115-netbsd15-snap/i386/
> > and it seems to contain things organized in the usual way (ie, with
> > subdirectories called binary/ installation/ etc ...).  Would this be the
> > location of the -current snapshots then ?
> 
> No, it's snapshots of the 1.5 release branch with KAME.  All of this 
> Plat'Home created stuff (snapshots and iso images) is of the latest
> release branch (not -current).

Oh.

> Hope this clarifies things a little.

Thanks.

Regards,
Rakhesh