[3909] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Different Solaris update miniroot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Sun Jul 6 19:03:32 2003
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 06 Jul 2003 19:03:30 -0400
> In the long run, it actually does make sense to use an update miniroot
> matching the version you're updating from, rather than the version
> you're updating to. That way you can just copy in the
> /etc/name_to_major from the root.
If it works here (as it apparently does), that's great, but it may not
necessarily be the case generally; for example, there could be some
post-install operation which requires the new version to be running.
FWIW...
Bob
