Subject: Re: Update disaster narrowly averted today!
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd-current-users@quatriemek.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2003 00:35:49
Le Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:28:39 -0700
walt a ecrit :
[...]
> The trick would be to copy the new libc.so.12.103 to /lib BEFORE
> doing the install of userland, just in case you run into the same
> problem.
> 
> I just updated my source tree again and found lots of new updates,
> so perhaps I just picked the wrong moment to update.  I'm about
> to recompile and try again.

Another possible path is to build sets, reboot with the new kernel,
potentially use /rescue for init, sh and pax, untar the sets, and then do
the postinstall stuff.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net
"Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down.
Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground ?"
Leigh Nash/Sixpence None The Richer, Paralyzed, Divine Discontents, 2002.