I received/responded to this privately before it was also sent to the list, so paraphrasing below...
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:45:43AM -0700, Bret Miller wrote: > But adding the option to archive will make at least some people more > comfortable with running sa-update. So I added the bz ticket. We'll see > where it goes. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure people understood that sa-update does a bunch of things to try protecting the current installation before putting a new update in place. It's more than "download a file, delete the current directory, untar the file, exit." :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Leary ate psilocybin cubensis in Cuernavaca and saw the beauty of the universe; I ate goulash and saw the suckage of IT management. We both drank crappy beer. You be the judge." - Benjy Feen
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