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From: forys@boulder.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: upgrades and local mods (was .l vs .1)
Message-ID: <776@sigi.boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 04:08:15 EST
Article-I.D.: sigi.776
Posted: Wed Mar 11 04:08:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Mar-87 23:39:20 EST
References: <4762@brl-adm.ARPA> <2606@phri.UUCP> <648@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: forys@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 14
Keywords: /bin/ls
Summary: simplest upgrading tool

In article <648@vu-vlsi.UUCP> perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry) writes:
> Pyramid provides some programs called 'rls' and 'rlscmp' plus a list
> of files (including stuff similiar to 'ls -lg' plus a checksum) as they
> should be if you haven't modified anything in the old release.  With these
> programs you can easily generate lists of what files have been added and
> what files have been changed from the standard distribution [...]

Why not just do an `ls -lt' of the directories?  It gets you a sorted list
of everything that's been changed.  Then, all you gotta do is meticulously
plow thru each directory and check out the modified files (I've actually
managed a couple *clean* upgrades this way).  'cept, of course, I *always*
forget to do a `df' before starting.  Oh yeah, and you need a pizza too...
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Jeff Forys @ UC/Boulder Engineering Research Comp Cntr (303-492-6096)
forys@Boulder.Colorado.Edu  -or-  ..!{hao|nbires}!boulder!forys