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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FAQ: What's the *Right* way to upgrade 1.1G to 1.1R? Date: 14 Jun 1994 12:42:45 -0400 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2tkmm5$273@sbus.entropic.com> References: <2sfn3k$5e6@meatball.rwwa.com> <JKH.94Jun5214915@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2t9sb9$n1a@meatball.rwwa.com> <2tb7jh$dki@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sbus.entropic.com In article <2tb7jh$dki@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: ># /tmp/cat /usr/distrib/bin_tgz.* | ( cd /; /tmp/tar zxpvf - ) >[ Chug, chug, chugh. Go get a pop or something. You will notice that > /bin/sh, /sbin/init, and /usr/bin/gzip won't get updated since they > are running currently. Also, alot of the symlinks won't get installed > because they already exist ] You can fix this by using the --unlink flag to tar; it fixes both the "Text file busy" and the symlink problem. --Ken