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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:45:16 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au, nsouch@teaser.fr, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS totally broken on freefall
Message-ID:  <199901250145.MAA23841@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901242033050.323-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Jan 24, 1999  8:35:26 pm"

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> Might want to know that I just tried that, and was surprised to find out
> that perl makes changes in it's obj dir during it's install.  The
> multiple installs from the same obj tree works *only* if you tar away
> the gnu/usr.bin/perl and tmp/usr/bin dirs from the obj tree, and
> reinstall them in the obj tree before each new install.

That's good to know. I consider that is the sort of problem that should
be fixed before _I'd_ attempt to upgrade an important production system.
Until the upgrade process works on a scratch system, I wouldn't
touch the production system at all.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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