Re: pkgsrc-2020Q3 potential c/c++ wrapper bugs?

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

I think there are two tarballs (pkgsrc.tar.xz and
pkgsrc-2020Q3.tar.gz). One of them is the released version, the other
one is a snapshot of the stable channel. Of course, I can never
remember which is which.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:52 AM Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:10:03 +0000
> nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:41:06PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:59:45 +0000
> > > nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > > The x11-links changes were backported to 2020Q3 on the 21st
> > > > October, so it should be at 1.32 in 2020Q3.
> > > >
> > > > If you are on the tag or a downloaded tarball, you need to cvs up
> > > > to get backported changes - including security updates.
> > >
> > > OK thanks for the info. I simply downloaded pkgsrc.tar.bz2 as this
> > > seemed to be the only option on ftp server. Not sure how often those
> > > get updated, they were all created on Sep 27, but in the future I'll
> > > try to remember to get it from cvs, as this may be the safer option.
> >
> > You can use "cvs up" inside an extracted tarball. They're intended for
> > bootstrapping since CVS checkouts can take ages.
> >
> > I don't suspect the tarballs get updated after the initial tag
> > creation.
>
> I've seen them updated before, so I though it was done on a daily or
> weekly basis, as a cron job or something, but that is probably not the
> case. As you mentioned previously, cvs update will get all the latest
> fixes for that branch. I'll be doing that from now on.



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Benny