On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Paul Frommeyer wrote:
> In reply to your message of Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:58:08 EDT:
> 
> Well, this all seems to be making sense, which in a way is scaring me... ;-)
> 
> Rolling up multiple responses and dropping attributions for brevity...
> 
> | well, i think what the deal is here, is that by cvs co'ing -rnetbsd-1-6 
> | you are getting the "1.6" branch which is going to equate to you 
> | getting the latest greatest 1.6 (1.6.2, effectively).
> 
> Ah. This isn't clear from the manual (I'll have to think about submitting
> some change suggestions... ;-). However, am I right in thinking:
> 	1) There is no way to get the first-release 1.6 sources, but
> 	only the current 1.6.x branch

No. each release also has a tag associated with it:

netbsd-1-6 == current state of 1.6 branch (generally post last release)
netbsd-1-6-PATCH002 - 1.6.2 source
netbsd-1-6-PATCH001 - 1.6.1 source
netbsd-1-6-RELEASE - 1.6 source

> 	2) That being the case, I'll be risking a kernel build that
> 	doesn't match the current world (the original 1.6 world).

Newer kernels should work w. older userlands. it's going the other direction
you can possibly lose. Though on a release branch nothing should be deviating
that much.

>  
> | additionally, if you're going to checkout src and build a new kernel, 
> | you should build a new world. w/o fail.  otherwise you're asking for 
> | problems.  if you don't modify your srcs (via cvs up or cvsup or 
> | whatever), then feel free to build and install a billion different 
> | kernels w/o changing userland.  but again, if you update your srcs, you 
> | should plan on building both.
> 
> A point of purpose: I'm only interested in building a new kernel. I'm
> not interested in updating to 1.6.x from 1.6 if I can help it. However,
> having started with an empty /usr/src, it looks like I probably have the
> 1.6.x sources... :-/

If you just want a new kernel, just checkout syssrc

James

> 
> |     pf> Excellent; I'll do a make clean and give this a try.
> | 
> | maybe you need to do that, too---i don't know.  But doing that will
> | NOT fix the problem you posted a question about.  The NetBSD sources
> | you checked out are broken.  You could try the patch I posted, or wait
> | for someone else to fix the netbsd-1-6 branch more properly.
> 
> Um, first... patch? I think I missed something somewhere in there...
> 
> Second, the ./build.sh -t seemed to work. However, this does turn
> out to be a production nameserver and not my home desktop, so I'm not in a
> position to fly with a loose kernel. :-/
> 
> All this being the case, I think what I really need to know is: How do I
> find out for sure what version of the sources that I have?
> 
> Many many thanks for all the feedback,
> 
> 	Paul
> 
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