At 9:33 Uhr -0800 22.11.2005, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> Sysinst will run postinstall, IIRC it isn't possible to run etcupdate
>> with the information available on an installed system.
>
>Sorry for getting back to this so late. Why isn't it possible to run
>etcupdate with the information available on an installed system?
>
>All etcupdate needs is the "pre-update" /etc and the new /etc. Both are
>available.

Plus /var/etcupdate if you use '-a -l'. And that is currently a hard-coded
path, i.e. if you tried to run etcupdate from sysinst it would look in the
mfs /var.

And if you get to manually merge with local changes, your editor is ed(1).
"Well."

	hauke


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