Subject: Re: can NetBSD-daily provide the sourcesets also?
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/20/2005 13:41:06
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005.09.20 13:12:15 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> | On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:
> | > Also sprach Geert Hendrickx (geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be)
> | >
> | > > could ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily also provide the sourcesets for
> | > > the builds they're offering? This isn't much work (./build.sh
> | > > sourcesets), and can give people a recent src/ tree to cvs up from.
> | >
> | > Shouldn't "cvs co -D ??????" work to get the sources of the desired daily
> | > build?
> |
> | Yes, just as well as "./build.sh ?????" could give you the binaries of the
> | desired daily build.
> |
> | Downloading tarballs is much more efficient than cvs up'ing from scratch,
> | for both the client and the server.
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/
>
> Please read:
> http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-fetch.html#chap-fetch-tarball-netbsd-current
Nice, but this only covers -current. What if I want to install a Release
Candidate on a machine, along with the sources _of that exact build_?
It can't be that hard to add a "./build.sh sourcesets" to the NetBSD-daily
scripts.
Geert