Subject: Re: md5 checksums in pkg PLISTS
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/07/1998 08:48:57
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> overwritten.. a good upgrade process would do something like copy them to /tmp
> and then back out to where they were after the install..  Just thinking ahead

You can also - instead of copying the file back out - make a diff and
(try to) apply that one to the new file.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>