[777] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Update questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Thu Oct 31 08:13:14 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:12:58 -0500
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199610311308.IAA19375@badger.lehman.com>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
On Thu, 31-October-1996, "Richard Basch" wrote to "Greg Hudson, release-team@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU" saying:
> On Thu, 31-October-1996, "Greg Hudson" wrote to "release-team@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU, probe@MIT.EDU" saying:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ezra and I attempted to make the update and installation scripts the
> same, at one point. To do that, we had to introduce the concept of ROOT
> to specify a relative directory that the update scripts should work
> with. The rationale for trying to consolidate update and installation
> is that there had been several releases where the workstation
> functionality differed simply because of differences between the install
> and the update; sometimes, special actions taken by the update scripts were
> not mimicked by the installation script, and if they were one, this
> would no longer be the case.
I forgot to mention, this was NEVER completed... but at certain times,
it was really close to being completed...
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