it is a good habit to get into , though, to keep a source tree around and to
make upgrades/changes by applying a patch to the source tree and typing 
'make'. It's the much superior method. NetBSD isnt generally for 
newbies... i do highly recommend the source method. it is in the long run 
the superior way, even if it woudl take some getting used to... 

just my $.02,
isildur

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, linc wrote:

> > > you) can't we find a spot easy to get to to put the fixed binaries so the
> > > next guy doesn't get stuck downloading 14 megs?
> > I think it is not practical collecting binarys. NetBSD supports that
> > many architektures and has a very well structured source, that it is
> > easy fixing such bugs from source by recompiling.
> 
> Well being that I am the newbie here, I will tell you straight out that
> either collecting the fixed binaries somewhere we can find them is worth
> it.
> 
> -Linc Fessenden
> 
> behemoth.linc.com NetBSD 1.5 pmax mipsel
> 
>