Subject: Re: pkgsrc and tcsh
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/26/2002 15:24:53
[ On Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 21:10:49 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pkgsrc and tcsh
>
> On Sat, 25 May 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> # Personally I prefer to do upgrades by building a whole new machine from
> # scratch, testing it, and then rolling it into production.... When I
> # can't do that I usually do a full from-scratch re-install, then
> # re-install all the new packages, and finally restore user data. Theres
> # usually a lot more downtime for the latter procedure though.
>
> Doing it right is not always the easy way.
Well, perhaps not, but anything worth doing is worth doing right! :-)
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