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From: knight@caboom.zko.dec.com (Dave Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Upgrading just binaries to 1.1.5.1?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 07:40:39
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In article <302m8l$9tp@quagga.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>If you start by doing an install from the kcopy and filesys floppies,
>you will land up newfs'ing your disk again - which will tend to destroy
>your existing setup.
That's exactly what I expected would happen . . .
>I would recommend reinstalling and then reloading /home /usr/local etc
>from tape, and then replacing some of the files in /etc by hand.
hmmm. . . Considering how much work I put in to getting 1.1 the way I wanted
it, I was hoping that there was some relatively safe way of upgrading "in
place" without having to build the whole world from scratch again. Oh well,
thanks anyway.
>I would not recommend extracting the bindist over your exsiting system,
>unless you know exactly what you are doing -- it's very easy to cause
>yourself some nastiness, especially by nuking your shared libraries ;-)
I can easily believe that.
I still find it a bit hard to believe that the best way to upgrade is to do a
full reinstall followed by a reinstall of the various packages and files that
were set up andtailored for a previous version. That sort of implies that it
would be easier and safer to do a full source build based on the new source
tree, rather than attempting to do some sort of a binary update. True?
>(One upgrade based on a full install, and then reloading local files
>from tape took me a little over 2 hours.)
Any future plans to make upgrades a bit less effort than full installs?
Thanks for the help.
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Dave Knight knight@ka1dt.mv.com (home)
knight@caboom.zko.dec.com (work)