Subject: Re: Update Function In CS 1.1 Installer?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 17:21:04 MDT
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 schinder@pobox.com wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:10:45PM -0600, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> } On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> }
> } > >
> } > > I plan to upgrade my CS 1.0 sytem to CS 1.1. Is there an Upgrade
> } > > function in the Installer? Since I made some customizations (keyboard
> } > > tables and the like) I try to avoid an install from scratch.
> } >
> } > Sure us.
> } Sure is too :)
>
> One problem I noticed with the upgrade was that it puts stuff back on
> the machine that I had pulled off, even after having done an "rpm -e"
> to get rid of it, so that it should no longer be in the rpm database.
> Imagine my chagrin to see sendwhale^H^H^H^H^Hmail back on my wife's G3
> after upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1, because blowing away sendmail and
> installing qmail is the first thing I do on any Unix box after getting
> control of it. The installer also did nasties to my from-source perl
> installation in /usr/local, because I had symlinks from
> /usr/local/lib/perl5 to /usr/lib/perl5, etc., just in case there were
> scripts lurking around that exepcted them in the "right" place. Is
> there a way of make an upgrade behave a little better?
Good point... no way from the Red Hat installer. (FYI -- we use qmail
too.. that's the first thing I do too). Our new installer will have a more
intelligent upgrade feature..
>
>
> }
> } >
> } > > Thanks a lot for your thoughts
> } > >
> } > > Cheers
> } > > --Urs
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> } >
> } >
> } > Dan
> } >
> } > Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> } > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> } > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> } >
> } >
> } >
> }
> }
> } Dan
> }
> } Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> } email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> } website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> }
> }
> }
>
> --
> Paul Schinder
> schinder@pobox.com
>
Dan
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email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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