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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 06:11:52 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: upgrading XFree86
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David Dawes:
 |On Sun, Jul 13, 1997 at 11:49:46AM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |>I've never untarring on top of an existing dist because: 1) some XFree
 |>alphas I believe have mentioned, don't do that -- it won't work, and 2) if
 |
 |Did they?  No XFree86 alphas were ever made available to the public,

Sorry, had alpha on the brain.  I meant to say beta.

 |and all of the public releases could be installed in this way (that's
 |how I always install them).  The only caveat is that the provided
 |preinst.sh script should be run first.  There has been the odd case of
 |a file being replaced with a directory of the same name, and the provided
 |script would remove such files first.

This may have been what I was remembering, or it could be one of the 3.1.1
betas didn't have a preinst.sh. 

Anyway, it'd still be nice to be able to just rm -r and install the new
one.

Randall