On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:34:59 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off
> their feet... I have used legacy sysinstall to upgrade a live
> multiuser system before and will probably do so again.
Hair-raising. :-)
Anyway, I've snuffled around in the code and I think I'd have to
teach sysinstall what release it was built for before producing as
comprehensive a warning as Wes was talking about.
That'd be easy if I knew how VAR_RELNAME gets initialized. My take on
the code made me think it's via kern.osrelease, but that doesn't seem
to be the case. I've attached the diff I have on hand, but I'd obviously
like to know how to do this properly.
> Hmm... "bleet"'s not in esr's hacker dictionary.
My original spelling was "bleat".
Ciao,
Sheldon.
Index: options.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/sysinstall/options.c,v
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -d -r1.62 options.c
--- options.c 1999/08/05 19:50:26 1.62
+++ options.c 1999/08/12 01:04:16
@@ -95,7 +95,10 @@
#define TAPE_PROMPT "Please enter the tape block size in 512 byte blocks:"
#define NEWFS_PROMPT "Please enter newfs(8) parameters:"
-#define RELNAME_PROMPT "Please specify the release you wish to load or\n\"none\" for
a generic release install:"
+#define RELNAME_PROMPT "Please specify the release you wish to load or " \
+ "\"none\" for a\ngeneric release install. Using an installed version " \
+ "of sysinstall\nto install or upgrade to later releases is not " \
+ "recommended."
#define BPKG_PROMPT "Please specify the name of the HTML browser package:"
#define BBIN_PROMPT "Please specify a full pathname to the HTML browser binary:"
#define EDITOR_PROMPT "Please specify the name of the text editor you wish to use:"
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