[8177] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.3M: upate to 7.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Sep 12 18:57:09 1991
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 17:24:36 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.3M
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Update my workstation from 7.2 to 7.3. My workstation has a
separate disk partition for vice stuff, mounted on /vice, with
/usr/vice pointing to /vice.
What's wrong:
The update procedure has no provisions for such a
customization. It tries to update /site/usr/vice, which
results in:
a) Several error messages during the update, and the vice
partition doesn't get updated properly.
b) The machine won't reboot with AFS active after the update,
because /usr/vice once again points to /site/usr/vice,
which doesn't exist and wasn't reconstructed by the update.
Furthermore, the machine couldn't activate, because system
packs were in AFS.
What should have happened:
As I see it, it should either (a) reference /usr/vice instead
of using /site/usr/vice explicitly, so that it will update
whatever vice directory has been configured on the workstation
(and not change /usr/vice to point to /site/usr/vice if it
doesn't point there when the update starts), or (b) rebuild
/site/usr/vice before trying to do anything in it, just to
make sure that it's there.
jik
