tracy...

manuel has already given you some pointers but i thought i'd butt in and show 
you how i do it too!

i sup the relevant source with the following sup config (note that this only 
gets the relevant source for sparc so you would have to edit this for 
whichever platform you are using) it has the advantage of not downloading the 
entire source tree for every platform. note also that pkgsrc is not necessary 
but i like to keep an up to date pkgsrc tree

/etc/supfiles/coll.list

#       $NetBSD: sup.uk.netbsd.org,v 1.4 1999/02/16 08:22:19 abs Exp $
#

current release=pkgsrc host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete

release-1-5 release=src host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete

release-1-5 release=ksrc-common host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete

release-1-5 release=ksrc-sparc host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete 

release-1-5 release=ksrc-sparc64 host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete

release-1-5 release=gnu host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
base=/usr prefix=/usr use-rel-suffix compress delete

the releases are src for userland, ksrc for kernel related and gnu - needed 
for compiling userland.

a simple command (as root)
sup -s
(i run this in a crontab once a week)

then compile the kernel and follow the instructions in 'tracking current' for 
building userland:

mkdir /usr/obj
cd /usr/src
make obj
make build 

as manuel says, you will end up with 1.5.3_ALPHA which is the 'stable' release 
of 1.5 (not -current).

thought this might be of some use as i had some difficulty piecing the info 
together for myself some time ago...

GREG

> Hi!  I'm running the Wasabi distribution of the 1.5.1 release, and I was
> wondering if there's any standard upgrade path for moving to 1.5.2.  I've
> set up CVS and fetched a copy of the latest kernel sources, but I don't
> really want to be tracking -current (I want to use the box to develop other
> software, not play with the system itself).  Can I just retrieve files
> labelled for the 1.5.2 release?  I'd also want everything else (utilities,
> libraries, etc), do I have to get those from CVS as well?  I don't mind
> building everything from source, but I'd rather install pre-built packages
> if that's possible (just for the sake of convenience).  Or would it be
> possible to just download a 1.5.2 ISO image and upgrade from that?
> 
> Thanks!
> -- Tracy Nelson
>