On Jun 21,  1:06pm, sparta@imsa.edu wrote:
>When upgrading through an untar from /, the only problem you may have to deal
>with is the fact that it won't overwrite open files while its running.  Some
>files (like init) are impossible to overwrite from inside NetBSD.
>
>The optimal thing to do is to boot from a miniroot and mount your partitions
>up and do the install.  Maybe we should make a miniroot part of the
>distribution?

Seems to me that it should unlink the old file, then release the disk space
when the file is closed.  Is this not the case?  I know that every time I
do a 'make install' in the source tree, it has no problems updating an
active system...

~Steve

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