Re: 5.1 release?

[Asmodehn Shade <asmodehn%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi all,

I wrote a small script for automated update on NetBSD systems a while ago.
With a nice menu or simply through arguments...
You can find it there :
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/netbsd-intro/trunk/#dirlist
I just updated the last version that i used recently. should be revision 50.

DISCLAIMER :
Feel free to do whatever you want with it, as long as you dont sue me for
anything ;-)
And yes updating via CVS takes time...

If anyone is interested in helping me maintain such a tool, let me know.
The docbooks that goes along with it, start to be a bit old as well.

Anyway, I hope it will be useful to others ;-)

--
Alexandre VINCENT

Asmodehn's Corp.
IT & OpenSource development
http://asmodehn.com


2010/9/2 David Lord <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>

> On 2 Sep 2010 at 8:25, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> > > Basically, http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-5.cgi?status=open
> > > but the list of tickets or bugs holding the release is private, AFAIK.
> > > From what I know, 2 more tickets needs to be processed, and a new RC
> > > will be cut.
> >
> > > --
> > > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> >
> > I too have been burning with curiosity about 5.1 release, or if there
> would be an RC4, since the time interval since RC3 has become much greater
> than between RC1 and RC2, or RC2 and RC3.
> >
> > But now my question is how do I update the source code, what is the
> preferred way.  I can download either the source sets or sourcecd iso, but
> the question is how to update the source directories.
> >
> > There is the obvious
> >
> > rm -R /usr/src/*
> > rm -R /usr/xsrc/*
> >
> > and then unpack the new source, but is that the preferred way, or is
> there something more efficient, more elegant, possibly using cvs?
>
> I've used cvs, it needs a little bit of setting up
> which is described in the NetBSD guide.
>
> cd /usr
> cvs checkout -rnetbsd-5 -P src
>
> or if you already have sources
>
> cd /usr/src
> cvs update -A -rnetbsd-5 -dP
>
> That resulted in NetBSD 5.1_RC3
>
> Once I had built the sets I used them to update my
> pcs by copying over, first copy a kernel and confirm
> bootup is ok, then unpacking required sets except
> for etc.tgz
>
> Alternative used to be to download a source.tgz but
> either format or location has changed.
>
> Ready built sets can be downloaded
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1_RC3/i386
>
> or the iso can be burned to cd and systems updated
> from cd.
>
>
> David