On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, June 30, 2003 at 11:09:14 (+0200), Christoph Kaegi wrote: ]
> > Subject: newest stable version (was Re: CVS getting files then deleting them)
> >
> > And which one do I have to get if I want the latest stable
> > code base?
> > 
> > netbsd-1-6-1 or netbsd-1-6 ?
> 
> It depends on what you mean by "stable code base".
> 
> If you want the latest stable release then use
> "netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RELEASE" (or "netbsd-1-6-PATCH001" -- I'm not 100%
> sure why there are two apparently identical tags).
> 
> However it would probably be a bit easier on everyone if you just used
> the src.tgz archive that comes with the release distribution rather than
> CVS to access the 1.6.1 release sources:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/source/sets/
> 
> If on the other hand you want to use CVS to track the stable branch then
> use the latter, i.e. the branch tag "netbsd-1-6".

And if you want the stable *pkgsrc* branch, use "netbsd-1-6-1"

Yes, this is confusing. The reason is that src is branched for each
major release (so the netbsd-1-6 branch was created for NetBSD-1.6), and
each release is tagged on that branch. On the other hand, pkgsrc
is branched for each release.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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