On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Joshua Coombs wrote:

> firewall.  Being the impatient type, I don't want to wait for 1.5.3 to
> be cut as a release, but I would like to have minimal work to upgrade to
> it when it is cut.  To me this means get a box up and running as new a
> current as possible to minimize upgrade pain.

1.5.3 is not -current. A release candidate of 1.5.3 is available. You can
use the netbsd-1-5 tag. (You don't have to wait.)

> boot/install from that, but have noticed that a non trivial amount of
> things have changed between 1.5.2 and where NetBSD is now that I'd
> prefer to start from as close to a current state as possible.

Do you want leading-edge, in-development -current or do you want stable
1.5.3?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/