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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why upgrades are not simpler? Date: 5 Jan 1997 13:51:27 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5aobkv$h6n@boole.maths.tcd.ie> References: <5akno1$ras$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: boole.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33566 reyes01@ibm.net writes: >It would be nice if at least while in the same version number such as 2.1.5 >to 2.1.6 the upgrades would be more automated. If this is a FAQ please just >let me know where I can read the answer. I've used getting the sources and then "make world ; make install" to do upgrades - it needes some minor changes after this for local changes we've added, but works quite well. The main thing that gets out of date are the /etc files, which you can update by hand. David.