The following reply was made to PR misc/36765; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, george@galis.org
Subject: Re: misc/36765 archive of netbsd-3 ?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:17:03 +0200

 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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