[5237] in testers
Re: Different wrong behviors when trying to update to 9.1 when
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 18 19:05:40 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 18 Jun 2002 19:05:36 -0400
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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:59, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Gary Dryfoos, on his Sun box with public, not early, cluster membership,
> said update_ws 9.1 instead of update_ws.
I don't think it makes any difference that he said "9.1" there.
> I think it's unreasonable to expect people to just know that if you do
> the linux thing "update_ws 9.1" on the Sun by mistake, terrible flaming
> red rocks will fall on your head.
Well, his situation should be recoverable, by giving the machine 9.1
cluster information. But yes, the Sun/SGI update script should probably
refuse to take a full update on a machine without cluster info for the
target release.
