What happened to branches other than dragonfly-2010Q3

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Fri Aug 19 13:12:43 PDT 2011


There's tarballs (or bzip, etc.) for recent branches and
pkgsrc-current at ftp.netbsd.org.  For example

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q2/

Plus Matthias pointed out you can grab from github too.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Justin Sherrill
> <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>> I've seen a number of people say they get errors when downloading
>> dragonfly pkgsrc via git.  I don't know what's causing it, but 2
>> workaround for now would be to either grab it the old-fashioned way
>> via CVS: (assuming tcsh)
>>
>
> Also why not consider providing a pkgsrc.tgz snapshot for download
> once a week or so?
> It would be easier to pull through http/ftp since it can be resumed?
>
> I said because I guess it is what OpenBSD does
>
> http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/
>
> Is that going to be too difficult to automate? Or is there already
> such setup some where?
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> --Siju
>






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