On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:00:06AM +0000, George Georgalis wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/36765; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: misc/36765 archive of netbsd-3 ?
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:56:39 -0400
> 
>  On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 09:49:52PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
>  >
>  >There are tarballs for the netbsd-3 branch available at:
>  >ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/pick_date/source/sets/
>  
>  Thanks, that will be a big help.
>  
>  I'm scripting out a process to bring a host up to a
>  local standard which includes pkgsrc and src trees.
>  With ${pick_date} there are some hoops to figure out
>  the url.
>  
>  ./pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/200708100002Z/source/sets/src.tgz
>  
>  I wonder if there is any reason not to symlink
>  ./pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/${pick_date} to
>  ./pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/netbsd-3 every time a
>  new ${pick_date} comes out? Then we have a fixed url
>  for whatever most current snapshot of the tag is
>  available.
>  
>  Yeah, that puts the tag in the url twice, maybe the
>  symlink could be called "snapshot"?

Or "last"

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