> Speaking of current code.... When are things settling into a
> 1.4.2-alpha snapshot level?  Anyone have a handle on that.  I
> noticed the pmax, sparc, and i386 trees were on 1.4.2-alpha
> already.  The VAX tree is a couple of months back, unless there
> are snapshots out, elsewhere, and not in the main archive, that
> I am not aware of.

Hmm, you triggered my "this guy may have misunderstood our
release numbering scheme button". ;-)  Please bear with me if
this explanation is well-known stuff.


Please note that the coming 1.4.2 will not be upgrade from
NetBSD-current in its various forms, but an upgrade from 1.4.1
and 1.4 and earlier releases.

Machines running NetBSD-current post 1.4 identify themselves with
the revision designation of the form 1.4[A-Z] (as printed by
"uname -r"), and the nearest appropriate upgrade path to a
release for those machines will be the coming 1.5 release.

The snapshot for the vax sitting on ftp.netbsd.org and its
mirrors (the 15 November 1999 one) are AFAIK created from the
NetBSD-current source base as of that date, and doing an
"upgrade" to 1.4.2 from that code has the potential to cause you
no end of problems because in some areas it is actually a
*downgrade*.

See the release graph at the bottom of

   http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html

While it only covers the situation around the 1.3 and 1.3.1
releases, the same release numbering scheme is still in use
today.

Regards,

- H=E5vard