On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:29:03PM -0400, Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:04:08PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> > there are usually snapshots of release branches at
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/$ARCHITECTURE/snapshot.
> 
> Ah...that's what I was missing. I had always associated that snapshot
> dir with current snapshots. So, looking there now:
> 
> Current directory is /pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot
> 
>    Up to i386
> Jan 30  2001  Directory        20010130-1.4.3A
> Feb 24 22:16  Directory        20020215-nathanw_sa
> Mar 19 15:45  Directory        20020312-1.5.3_RC1
> Apr 27 10:38  Directory        20020427-1.5.3_RC2
> Jun 21 08:05  Directory        20020518-1.5ZC
> May 30 12:17  Directory        20020530-1.6_BETA1-XFree86-4.2.0
> 
> ...would I be correct in identifying the '_RC1' and '_RC2' entries as
> snapshots of updates of release-1-5? And '20020518-1.5ZC' and
> '20020530-1.6_BETA1-XFree86-4.2.0' as snapshots of current? 

Almost. 20020518-1.5ZC was current, before it became 1.6.
20020530-1.6_BETA1-XFree86-4.2.0 is not -current: 1.6 has been branched,
so now 1.6_* are from release branch, and 1.6A (or are we at 1.6B now ?)
are current.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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