Subject: Re: kernel source
To: None <woods@weird.com>
From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/29/1998 18:37:39
Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sat, November 28, 1998 at 18:43:48 (-0800), Jason Thorpe wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: kernel source 
> >
> > You really want the snapshot building to provide the sources he/she used.
> 
> Indeed.  It really shouldn't be all that hard to tag the repository from
> the working directory used by the snapshot build and then "cvs export
> -kv -rSNAP_TAG" the sources based on that tag to create the canonical
> source distribution for a given tagged "release".

You want each portmaster to tag the whole repository for each snapshot?
That would be yet another reason for NetBSD not to release snapshots
very often. A simple date checkout makes more sense. Consider a daily
snapshot (on those architectures where you actually have time to
compile the whole tree in a day 8-).

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