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Subject: Re: WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!
Keywords: sco unix packages install deinstall bug danger
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Date: 6 Mar 91 17:16:45 GMT
References: <9113@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> <1991Mar06.060331.6849@kithrup.COM>
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>In article <9113@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp> trebor@lkbreth.foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>>Going into CUSTOM, I noticed that there were
>>several packages in the development system that I didn't need, like DOSDEV
>>and OS2DEV, so I decided to deinstall them.

If you make /tmp a separate file system rather than
leaving it a directory in the root file system, you
must unmount /tmp before using SCO's "custom" to install
and deinstall packages.

Some installation scripts create links in /tmp.  If
/tmp is a file system, this will fail, though the script
may not notice that and continue. (A link will fail in this case
since SCO UNIX cannot create links across file systems. This
is a characteristic of UNIX System V, not a "feature" created by SCO.)

Dean Roth
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