Date: Sat, 24 Jun 95 15:35:44 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <9506242135.AA15503@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9414.804007316@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 24, 95 04:21:56 pm
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> > Don't feel too bad about the update thing... OSF/1 still doesn't have > > update installs working right... > > Yeah, but it's a festering sore and I'm really at the stage where it's > going to move to #1 on my list, right up there with the release of 2.1 > itself. > > A lot of people out there don't have the time or the inclination to > reinstall their entire system from scratch every time, yet they want > to have the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that they're working with > the latest bits. They may also not have the disk space to "go > current" and simply make the world themselves, plus a make world in > /usr/src also isn't something that necessarily equivalent to the > latest release anyway. It doesn't update _everything_ that may be > required (like the appropriate /etc files). So *totally* divorce the configuration information from the *use* of the configuration. Then you can overwrite all the rc.* scripts or whatever to your heart's content. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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