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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 on 4.0.4 installation confusion
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 10:09:17 GMT
- References: <oisdpf8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <Bt8v7K.28I@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <1992Aug20.061212.6742@comp.bioz.unibas.ch> <1992Aug20.074302.19802@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In <1992Aug20.074302.19802@leland.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
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- | In article <1992Aug20.061212.6742@comp.bioz.unibas.ch> doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
- | >
- | >I did install 4.0.4 on a vanilla R3K Indigo entry for some reason. Now, as
- | >I want to upgrade to 4.0.5, it tells me that some prerequisites are not met
- | >to install the maint images. Looking for 'versions' I got surprised in seeing
- | >the list of 'Unknown Product', 'Unknown maintenance release' also covered
- | >compilers, and some 4DLT 4DDN NQS etc. optional software. Ignoring the fact
- | >that this might not be a 'feature', is there any way to get 4.0.5. on this
- | >indigo in OTHER way than downgrading to 4.0.1?
- |
- | I think it would be nice if some future version of inst made it possible to
- | see exactly what the prerequisites for an image are, beyond just saying if
- | they are missing. And maybe a way of overriding these prerequisites, or of
-
- It does, as soon as you say go. If you mean, before saying go,
- it could be done certainly, we just didn't foresee a need for it.
-
- | extracting specific files by name. Our lab server is running 4.0.1 now,
- | and I don't want to upgrade it to 4.0.5 right away. I've upgraded my own
- | Indigo, though, and I'd like to at least install the man pages for 4.0.5 on
- | the server. I wanted to install the man pages for the scaler optimizer
- | included with the 3.1 compilers. Inst refuses to install it locally on
- | either the Indigo or our main server because of missing prerequisites. I
- | don't know what could be a prerequisite for a man page, especially since
- | copt is a new product with the 3.1 compilers.
-
- Presumably the base compiler or development product.
-
- | Also I noticed something funny with the 4.0.5 maint CD. After doing the
- | default install, listing the CD again said the same products still needed
- | to be installed. Installing them again didn't help either: exiting inst,
- | and loading the CD again from scratch, inst still thought it needed to
- | install the same stuff.
-
- This is a known bug. It still exists as of 4.0.5D, I'm sorry to say.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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