Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc [netbsd-1-5]
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 12/07/2000 00:06:49
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, John Darrow wrote:
> : Now wait a minute, have we completely dismissed the use of 'sup' for
> : tracking our source tree, in favor of AnonCVS?
>
> No; however, "sup" follows "the latest source".  If you want "exactly" 1.5,
> there have been tarballs created for that purpose that will go with the 1.5
> release, or you can now use anoncvs.  In fact, 1.5.1 pullups will start
> going in on Monday.  (This is in an effort to get 1.5.1 out the door on a
> much shorter time schedule than past patch releases--as early as January or
> February.)

Is a side effect of -current not following current, but the release-1-5 
branch, that the tar files in 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src do not contain the 
current but the release-1-5 branch?  The reason I ask is that having just 
spent an 1 and a quarter fetching the gnu.tar.gz and finding that it's not 
what I want is very annoying (the reason for doing this was to avoid the hit 
of having to cvs the whole of the gnu/dist/toolchain dir.  My theory being 
that it's faster to download 1 tar file than to fetch it all via cvs)

When will the sup current become current again?  Or is it possible to have 
the tar files created so that they really do have current in them without 
using sup?

Cheers,
Chris