Subject: Re: New NetBSD Guide chapter: Obtaining the sources
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/14/2005 02:43:55
On Jan 2, 11:22am, Rui Paulo wrote:
} On 2005.08.11 14:49:00 +0000, John Nemeth wrote:
} | } | On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:59:59 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
} | } |
} | } | > As some of you already know, a new chapter was added to the NetBSD
} | } | > guide to replace the old "Fetching the sources by CVS".
} | } | > I would like, if possible, that you could read the chapter and expr
} ess
} | } | > your opinion on it since, after all, that chapter is will be mostly
} | } | > read by new users. Typos count too!
} 
} |      In 27.4.5. Downloading the pkgsrc-current development branch, the
} | path should be
} | ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz .
} | At this moment, the one at this path is dated Aug. 6th, and the one at
} | ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tar.gz is dated July 1st
} | (not exactly current).
} 
} Admins problem, I suppose.

     Perhaps so, but the Guide should strive to give the best
regardless, and the fact is that consistently has the latest tarball.

}-- End of excerpt from Rui Paulo