"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
> 
> At 1:57 PM -0400 10/8/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:44:23PM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> >  >            Other gotchas?
> >
> >
> >Only if you tell it to unpack etc.tgz. Don't. (I *think* sysinst's
> >upgrade preserves your old /etc, but I'm not sure of that.)
> >

I've not tried it, but when 1.5.1 came out, there was a flurry of
questions about this and the sysinst maintainers said it did.

> >The only real difference between what it does and what you might do
> >is that it uses pax.
> 
> Don't you need tar --unlink in order to make it delete the old files
> instead of overwriting them in place?  I know there was a post to
> this effect a couple of years ago.

No, --unlink is the default (I asked the same question about a year 
ago).