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Re: Doc out of date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Sun Mar 17 01:31:36 2002
Message-Id: <200203170631.BAA10792@wolverine.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:09:22 EST."
<20020317060922.GI8045@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:31:32 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
I believe the information that you quote is entirely
incorrect. I think this didn't actually make it into
the 8.x release, but into a 9.0.x release. Greg can confirm
or deny this...
To your second comment about 'most people' -- see above
"can't get 9.0 until they have hesiod and once they have it
it will automagically update for them".
--Angie
In message <20020317060922.GI8045@multics.mit.edu>,
John Hawkinson writes:
>Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 17 Mar 2002
>at 01:05:34 -0500 in <200203170605.BAA10599@wolverine.mit.edu>:
>
>> Unfortunately this is more complicated than you seem to
>> express below.
>
>> Simply telling a user to type 'update_ws 9.0' is useless
>> if they don't have hesiod information.
>
>I was under the impression that the installation had been fixed
>such that it worked regardless of hesiiod information.
>
>That was because Greg said in <200109301329.JAA28102@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>:
>
>| As of 8.4.21, Linux machines have been able to take updates
>| (automatic or manual) without cluster info, as long as they are
>| updating to a version in the current full release. The problem here
>| is that 8.4 is not the current full release and (as we all know) the
>| update from broken-8.4.25 to 9.0.x doesn't work, so users without
>| clusterinfo are stuck performing a more complicated procedure.
>
>Do I misinterpret him as saying that hesiod information is not
>required for the 9.0 update?
>
>> When I have more 'free time' -- see "Not until after the beginning
>> of April" -- I will look into what needs to change in the documentation
>> in more detail. SInce this really only matters to people that already
>> have hesiod info and want to update "right away" as opposed to letting
>> the update happen, it doesn't seem more critical than that.
>
>It seems to me that most people who come in and ask about installing
>linux either ask at that time, or come back/call back asking how to get
>9.0 because they don't want 8.4.
>
>--jhawk
