On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Chris G Demetriou wrote:
> > >Description:
> > 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup states:
> > 
> > 	"Stable releases of NetBSD are available via SUP. Instructions are
> > 	included with the release announcement.
> > 
> > 	This is incorrect - Stable releases are available via FTP.
> 
> No, it is correct.
> 
> _everything_ that is available via FTP is also available via sup.
> It's set up that way so that mirrors can retrieve everything via sup.
> 
> The full 1.2 release is available via the 'mirror' collection's '1.2'
> and '1.2-export' releases (the latter is the exportable version).
> Unfortunately, the README.sup file was never updated to noe the
> existence of those collections (or the collections for 1.1), and is
> probably missing a ew others as well.
> 
> 
> Note that you _can't_ get exploded source trees of stable releases via
> sup, but you can't do that via FTP, either.
> 
> 
> ... that README definitinely needs to be updated, though.
> 
	Thanks - I stand (substantially) corrected :)
	Maybe a line to the effect that the recommended way of picking up
	full releases is via ftp, and that sup should be used if you
	intend to track the source tree between releases (or run a
	mirror site :)

		David/abs