On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:55:09AM -0800, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> ... to take into account the recent security fixes?

yes

> 
> And, in general, are the "stable" releases changed once they are released,
> so that if somebody just downloads the latest release, the fixes are
> included?  Or does one need to apply the proper patches?

Sources are changed, but the binaries and sources tar files in
pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/ are not changed (this is what has been called
"NetBSD 1.6" and should not be changed).
You can get up-to-date sources from sup or cvs, and binaries from
ftp://releng/netbsd.org/

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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