[775] in Release_7.7_team
Update questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 31 02:01:25 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:01:16 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: epeisach@MIT.EDU, probe@MIT.EDU
Some issues about update which people might have answers to:
* do_update has support for an environment variable ROOT
specifying an alternate root for the local filesystem. Is
this actually used by anyone? Given that in the general
case, part of the update has to happen after a reboot, I
don't think this functionality can really be made to work.
* Craig introduced code for the SGI to edit /etc/services,
adding the stuff from /usr/athena/lib/update/services.add,
instead of treating /etc/services like all the other
configuration files. Does anyone know what the motivation
was?
* The part of do_update which tracks /srvd is inside a
conditional on FULLCOPY being true. FULLCOPY is always set
to true in update_ws, so it should always be true in
do_update. This change was added in 7.0A with no meaningful
comment from probe in the RCS log; is there any reason I
shouldn't rip it out?
