Ultrix 4.1!

[Brian Ellis]

In article <PCG.90Nov10180425 at odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg at cs.aber.ac.uk
(Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|> In general I think that upgrades are far more risky (difficult to get
|> right) than full reinstallations, and take about the same time, for any
|> Unix version.

If the upgrade is simply a "list" of the files that have changed, I could
live with that. BUT I would want to know precisely which files have been
changed,
(and would be overwritten) in advance. I would for example be quite happy with
a tar file that I could load into a seperate directory somewhere, and manually
move the relevant files across. I would be quite happy with some upgrade
software subsets - as long as I knew in advance which files were going to be
overwritten.

I believe that I could apply an upgrade supplied in this fashion much more
quickly than installing and configuring a new release.

Just my humble opinion...


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