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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.
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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 The main thing that gets out of date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.