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From: Craig Eldershaw <celdersh at parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] CVS kernels (was: Bootstrapping NetBSD)
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>>kernel sources under CVS as they bloody well *should be*
>
>I do not agree with Jason's assertion that kernel sources "should be"
>under CVS.  I am quite happy with the current scheme where I can
>download the source archive and drop it into /usr/src/, and simply run
>the appropriate make commands.

The two aren't mutually incompatible.  A cron job could regularly
extract a full kernel-a.b.c.tar.gz from the tree and place it in a
ftp'able directory.  So there is no loss to the non-programmers.

Cheers,
        Craig.


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