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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
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References: <2sfn3k$5e6@meatball.rwwa.com> <JKH.94Jun5214915@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2t9sb9$n1a@meatball.rwwa.com> <2tb7jh$dki@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <2tb7jh$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