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improving installation / update-installation efficiency

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Heling)
Mon Nov 18 16:16:49 1996

From: Joshua Heling <jrh@yellowchicken.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: jrh@yellowchicken.com
Reply-To: Joshua Heling <jrh@yellowchicken.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:01:38 -0500
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Hi --

My nfs/nis server is still running RH 3.0.3 (2.0.x kern, etc.), since I 
haven't wanted to take it down long enough to upgrade yet.  I'm wondering if 
anyone has knowledge about the viability of combining the upgrade and update 
installation process.  I've got the contents of the updates/4.0/i386 directory 
here, which I will install as soon as the upgrade is finished.  My question 
is, can I just copy the tree from the cdrom, and replace the RPMS which have 
since been updated *before* I do the upgrade?  My guess is that the upgrade 
programs just look for and install *.rpm in the /image/RedHat/RPMS directory 
-- if this is the case, it should deal with sendmail-8.7.6-5.i386.rpm (the new 
fixed version) just as well as it would with sendmail-8.7.5-5.i386.rpm (which 
ships on the cdrom).

If this *will* work, are there new risks it introduces? (in terms of the 
liklihood of a successful upgrade...)

Thoughts?

please cc: replies to me, as I don't have the time to read this list too 
anymore... :(

Thanks,

Joshua

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Joshua Heling           jrh@yellowchicken.com, jrh@netplan.com, 
				    heling@sar.usf.edu 



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