On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:00:03PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Er, so why are we doing this whole CVS song-and-dance instead of 
> patches on an FTP server? If even you couldn't easily determine that 
> the server that was built into the distribution was down, or not 
> using some protocol, or whatever, doesn't this indicate a pretty 
> serious problem for those of us who just want to follow the security 
> announcements?
> 
> As two people pointed out to me off-list, updating for this on the 
> Other Major BSD went flawlessly. "FTP from any mirror" seems much 
> more reliable than this...

there are anoncvs mirrors as well, which worked while the master was down.
Unfortuanbly the advisatory didn't explain how to use a mirror instead of
the master (but I suspect there are some indications on www.netbsd.org)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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