NetBSD Problem Report #12769

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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:33:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: smb@research.att.com
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
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>Number:         12769
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 27 21:33:00 +0000 2001
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jun 25 21:10:00 +0000 2016
>Originator:     Steven M. Bellovin
>Release:        1.5.1 beta
>Organization:
AT&T Labs Research
>Environment:

System: NetBSD berkshire.research.att.com 1.5.1_BETA NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA (BERKSHIRE) #0: Fri Apr 20 09:18:32 EDT 2001 smb@berkshire.research.att.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BERKSHIRE i386


>Description:
	The documentation is sorely lacking on how to specify the
	path to a directory containing the upgrade sets, if they reside
	on what was (and will be) /usr.  Is /usr mounted or unmounted?
	If mounted, under what name?  I suggest giving a simple example,
	with actual before/after path names.  (I suspect that the same
	might be true of /, since during the upgrade you're running
	from a ramdisk.)

	It would be a good idea, while you're at it, to fix sysinst
	to back out /etc versus /etc.old when the user requests an abort
	during an upgrade.  I had to do that manually, after each of the
	many failed tries.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to upgrade a machine with the binary sets on the /usr partition...
>Fix:
	I never did figure it out -- I simply untarred the sets by
	hand, taking special care with etc.  But I'm extremely
	experienced as a Unix user/administrator, and reasonably
	familiar with NetBSD.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: mrg@netbsd.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:16:04 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
is this still a problem with modern install docs?


State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:33:23 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
this has been in feedback for nearly ten years, let's give it a change of
pace.


From: "Steven Bellovin" <smb@machshav.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
 gnats-admin@netbsd.org, dholland@NetBSD.org, smb@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/12769 (clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on
 /usr)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:06:34 -0400

 More likely it should be closed -- I no longer remember the problem...

 On 24 Jun 2016, at 1:33, dholland@NetBSD.org wrote:

 > Synopsis: clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open
 > State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:33:23 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > this has been in feedback for nearly ten years, let's give it a change of
 > pace.
 >

>Unformatted:

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