Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: categories of files (was Re: Software installation opinions needed)
Message-ID: <9-26933@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 29 Sep 90 23:12:23 GMT
References: <1990Sep19.144819.12179@dg-rtp.dg.com> <26645@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Sep26.043825.26682@maytag.waterloo.edu> <1990Sep26.210617.12193@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Sep26.210617.12193@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> [when upgrading the system]. How do you tell which
> pieces belong to which package, and in what order to reconstruct
> things?  

You run the package's remove script (built at install time, so it knows the
configuration), remove it, and re-install after the upgrade.

What, you don't supply a remove script? Shame...
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