Subject: Re: Version releases and current-freezes
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/28/1998 21:43:18
Chris G. Demetriou writes:
> Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> > Occasionally portmasters do snapshots of various architectures to ease
> > transitions (or make it easy to get to -currentish without compiling). The
> > sources aren't frozen for the snapshots; they are just built and packaged,
> > and sometimes not even tested well.
>
> And alas, the sources used to build them aren't often packaged with
> them.
FYI, I actually try to include sources with my snapshots these days,
but I haven't done one in a while. I'm probably about to build one,
though.
Perry