current-users: Re: Differences between "etcupdate" and "postinstall"

Subject: Re: Differences between "etcupdate" and "postinstall"
To: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 08/05/2004 21:43:34

At 18:10 Uhr -0500 4.8.2004, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
>   4.  Perform post installation fixes (still as root)
>      cd /root/etc
>      ./postinstall -s /root check
>      # Now follow any instructions to fix your system files/config
>   5.  Update /etc (still as root)
>      /usr/sbin/etcupdate -b /root
>      shutdown -r now
>
>Does that look about right?

Since etcupdate runs 'postinstall check' after the sync, why manually run
it first? Drop step 4, IMHO.

	hauke

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