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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:36:24PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> wrote:
> =20
> > Finally, my PR diffs were written as I personally tested:
> >   tar -zxpf ~/comp.tgz
> >   ...
> >   tar -zxpf ~/base.tgz
> >   shutdown -r now
> >=20
> > Instead, they modified to:
> >   tar -zxpf ~/base.tgz
> >   tar -zxpf ~/comp.tgz
> >   ...</b></tt><br>
> >   /usr/sbin/etcupdate -b /root
> >   shutdown -r now
> >=20
> > I am absolutely positive this will not always work, as I've been bitten=
=20
> > by this mistake!  Installing base has to be done last, as tar is in bas=
e,
> > and with any changes to tar and the libraries it accesses *boom*!

I'm confused. I don't see how moving base.tgz to the end helps. First off,=
=20
my understanding is that our tar doesn't scribble over files, it creates=20
new ones then renames them. So we won't scribble over the running tar=20
itself.

Second, while I can see (and have been bitten by) damaged libraries coming=
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in with the new base.tgz, given that the tar will complete, why does it=20
matter when in the update it happens? As soon as it happens you want to=20
start reverting to an older, working verion. And if you do base.tgz first,=
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it is the only one you have to revert. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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