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- From: lwk@engin.umich.edu (Lewis W Kellum)
- Subject: Re: 3.2 PTF nightmares
- Message-ID: <QHs-7zB@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 14:45:17 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Sep10.195119.21571@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep10.195119.21571@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- >
- >So I ordered U403044 and got U407530. In addition to the assembler
- >"fix", it also came with "fixes" for these "problems", and more:
- >
- >IX25228 the mkboot command does not allow /dev/network to be specified
- etc...
- >And these are just the *completely* ridiculous ones. I'm inclined to
- >ask, quite bluntly:
- >
- >What the *HELL* does any of this have to do with the assembler? Why am
- >I expected to install a bunch of superfluous crap that's almost
- >guaranteed to break something else? I have no desire to tamper with
- >stuff which currently works.
- >
- >I'm probably going to pull the patch I need off the tape and install it
- >by hand. This should *not* be necessary.
- >
- >--
- > \ Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
- > /\ White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
- I too, experienced this. With patch U407553, we went ahead and blindly installed all the
- pre-requisite patches. This was supposed to be a fix for a known problem with
- dbx crashing the AIX3.2.2. It replaced /unix and libc.a and broke our X11R5 xdm, on which
- we depend. We didn't have time to trouble shoot, and had to re-install the
- entire system.
- This points up the problem with IBM's new way of handling updates one fix
- at a time - you get a bunch of fixes which I suspect have not been tested as one
- system. We also received another fix with equally as many, but somewhat different,
- patches. I can't believe IBM tests all the patch configurations as thoroughly as
- needed to avoid these problems.
- - Woody Kellum
-
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