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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!utcsri!cdf.toronto.edu!jdd From: jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) Subject: Re: netbsd 1.0A source Message-ID: <jdd.815088275@cdf.toronto.edu> Sender: news@cdf.toronto.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: coke Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) References: <95Oct27.221010edt.9375@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> <MICHAELV.95Oct28233633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:24:35 GMT Lines: 40 michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In article <95Oct27.221010edt.9375@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes: > Can anyone direct me to a location where I can find the source for 1.0A > (i386) corresponding to the binary distribution that can be found at > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386? The readme indicates it is a > binary snapshot of NetBSD-current for the i386 made around May 15th. >I think the only way you could get that source today would be to >convince a person with commit privileges to check out an entire tree >from the core CVS repository from that date. Unlikely. Pity. Could I perhaps suggest to anybody who decides to compile up and release a binary distribution that they also release a snapshot of the corresponding sources? >On the other hand, you could go at it from the other direction. A >fairly recent (unofficial) binary snapshot is available on >ftp.wasabi.com. It should match closely the current sources. That's a more reasonable option than pretending that the NetBSD-Current sources correspond to the 1.0A binary release (six months out of date is worse than one month), but I noticed the release on ftp.wasabi.com has the same problem as 1.0A: the sources used to generate the release are not made available. Surely it cannot be too much trouble to tar up and release the sources at the same time a binary release is cut? In any case, since the only sources that seem to be available are 1.0 and Current (Oct 30th), I'll have to decide whether or not to run 1.0 or compile a copy of Current. Regards, John -- John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu> Office: EA201B Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager Phone: 416-978-1928 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-1931 http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~jdd