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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: update to a snap Date: 28 May 1995 23:05:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3qavk6$1il@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <801015476k70585&1147298525r114@zurich.gcomm.com> <3pmv74$2ll@agate.berkeley.edu> <3q89af$1do@imp.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3q89af$1do@imp.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> wrote: >I don't understand this (oft repeated) official advice that upgrading >between snaps can't be done. I have gone from 2.0R->snap1->snap2->last snap I didn't say it _couldn't be done_, but until we have the process automated then it's not really a process I can generally recommend. Also, the extract.sh files have gone away in the new installation. It's much more automated now. This makes it both easier to use and harder to upgrade with. Sigh.. Jordan