Subject: Re: can NetBSD-daily provide the sourcesets also?
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/20/2005 12:10:31
In message <dgp0e4$4k3$1@sea.gmane.org>, Christos Zoulas writes:
>In article <20050920124302.GO1212@proton.internal.fnop.net>,
>Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>>-=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>>On 2005.09.20 14:02:19 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>>| On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>| > Fetch:
>>| > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-2-0/tar_files/src/
>>| >
>>| > and then ``cvs up -rnetbsd-2''.
>>|
>>| I know how to use cvs, thanks. I was asking whether the source tarballs
>>| could be added to the NetBSD-daily ftp repo.
>>
>>I don't think there will be tarballs for release candidates.
>
>The question is how much disk space they take. If they don't take a lot
>of disk-space, his request is valid (and useful).
>
I agree. My own wrapper scripts for build.sh include src and xsrc
tarballs, because I want to have available the exact source used to
build each system.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb