Subject: Re: could releng.netbsd.org also provide source sets?
To: Roberto Pereyra <pereyra.roberto@gmail.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/29/2005 17:10:22
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:56:35AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
> Hi
> 
> With cvs you can do it, ie:
> 
> #  Get NetBSD-current source from ~May 17th 2005 as /usr/src:
> 
>      % su 
>      # mkdir /usr/cvs
>      # chown $USER /usr/cvs
>      # ln -s cvs/src /usr/src
>      # exit
>      % cd /usr/cvs
>      % env CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co
> -D 20050517 src
> 

Yes, and you could also build all the binaries provided by releng yourself.
But that's not the point.  It would just be handy if you could download
e.g. netbsd-3 source tarballs and start from there.  

GH