Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:48:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> Cc: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>, Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ****HELP***** Message-ID: <821.817980538@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Dec 1995 22:12:05 CST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202220941.4729E-100000@complete.org>
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> It would be better if the installer would just: > 1) Overwrite older versions of programs with the newer versions > 2) Delete any obsoleted programs (and preferably make symlinks to the > newer ones) > 3) Add new files to existing system Unfortunately, the raw materials that the installer has to work with (distributions) aren't nearly that easily applicable to the more general problem you'd like me to solve. Only a filestore that allows me to do file by file operations will allow for this kind of intelligent merge. A split, gzip'd tar file is not that kind of filestore. I'm happy, as always, to accept contributions of code that help solve these problems! :-) Jordan
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