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Re: My Sun wouldn't complete update to Athena beta 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 5 11:32:40 2001
Message-Id: <200106051532.LAA00392@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:18:36 EDT."
<20010605111835.T11216@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:32:27 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
[Regarding removing the last line of /etc/athena/version:]
> Perhaps (for 9.1 at this point?) we ought to think about making this
> a bit more user-friendly, because it's been coming up for years.
> Perhaps "update_ws -f" or somesuch.
Perhaps.
> This also seems the sort of thing that it would be nice to have
> update_ws "do" or "figure out" instead of requiring relatively
> specific knowledge of the person updating.
I would be happy to have update_ws carry responsibility for attaching
the new packs, but it's a somewhat complicated change to an already
tenuous system, so it hasn't happened.
