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Re: upgrading libraries



On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:

afo >I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink !! Too late ??
afo >hope not 

never too late..

afo >Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any 
afo >suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in
afo >once?? 

i'd do it all at once, i ran dftp getnew --ftpsite ftp.fuller.edu off my
modem..and it worked great, did it on at least 3 different hamm
servers..there are a few hundred updated packages that i saw so it will
take a while..

afo >I know that upgrading those libraries is a major pain,
afo >from previous readings of the user-list. So how do
afo >I decide which library to upgrade, and in what order?

again, dftp getnew will only grab files that are newer then waht u
have..it was quite painless to install, although it took a long time :)


nate

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