From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: How to upgrade your system (was Re: SLS constantly changing -- is updating easy?) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 16:37:52 GMT
mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
[...a nice description of why NEW isn't always needed NOW...]
>Plus, you learn a lot about how the software is set up and how it works
>just by installing it yourself or recompiling it. Upgrading to an entire new
>SLS release is quite silly, since you probably only use 20% of the softs
>on it regularly, and there's no reason to upgrade most of the time.
I ran 0.97-2 mcc-interim that I built into a roll-my-own SLS (before SLS existed)
for 6 months without problems...I got the kernel up to 0.98-3, added news/mail/uucp
and utilities like perl/getty_ps plus x1.1 and had a hell of a nice system.
And yes, even though I run 300 unix boxes for a living, I learned some things too :-)
I recently upgraded to SLS0.99-4 mainly due to stupidity on my part
(trashed both boot floppies and couldn't find the sources anymore) and it wasn't
too painful...it wasn't fun, but when was the last time installing software was fun.
The thing the new one got me (painlessly) was shadow passwords and lpr
(therefore and tcp/ip)...also the new compiler and libs are significantly better.
As it currently stands, I'd highly recommend going for SLS-0.99-4 and *THEN*
upgrading just the pieces you want. Short of the existance of an unannounced
future incredibly fast file system or something, now's as good a time as any.
But I agree with Matt that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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