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Re: errata sheet installation questions ?????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prasanth Kumar)
Sat Nov 16 15:50:20 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:45:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Prasanth Kumar <pak@best.com>
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I personally take the delayed method. Upgrade following the list but
don't upgrade something which has a more recent update until later.
This method worked for me.
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Daniel Tasch wrote:
> I have just finished installing the errata sheet updates on my system. I
> have a question on how I should have done this.
>
> If a errata sheet item says:
>
> "upgrade to package-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm (a more recent update is below)"
>
> Does this mean upgrade to the more recent package now or wait till you get
> to the later item and upgrade it then ?
>
> What implications does this have for the other upgrades in between the
> first and last occurance of a upgrade of a specific package.
>
> An example of this would be items 2, 33, and 26Oct96. All call for an
> upgrade to pam. In which item do you do it. And if you do it in item 2
> do you have to redo it in step 33 after you run the script? There is only
> one updated package in the updates directory so doing it in several steps
> is not a choice. I chose to do this one in step 2 and redo it in step 33
> by using --force. Was this right?
>
>
> Anyway, I think that the errata sheet is good, but should be clearer in
> how the items should be done.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dan Tasch P. O. Box 31768 513-252-7179
> taschda@dmapub.dma.org Dayton, OH 45437
>
>
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