On 30 Sep 2000, François Pinard wrote:

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All of a sudden /usr/doc/packages was empty, and everything was in /usr/share/doc/packages. While the packages themselves, it seems, as a rule expects to find the doc in /usr/doc/packages.

I do not run 7.0 yet, but I would welcome such a change, for the situation where I want many machines on a site to share `/usr/share' through NFS, say.

Fine, except that _one_ package (ghc) ended up in /usr/doc/packages, the rest in /usr/share/doc. Meanwhile several packages expect to find their documentation in /usr/doc/packages. So I need to first copy ghc-doc over, and then do a symbolic link, as a local fix. On all the machines (a job for which I use cfengine, so it's not too bad). The problem isn't when I catch things like that on my first test- install. The problem is when I don't catch things like that. Are there more things like that I need to catch? Will not catching them cause (severe) problems when/if I upgrade my whole system? I've got my own, hand-built set of *.conf files. Without a comprehensive list of what SuSE has changed in their layout of the new version, I can be quite certain that some of them will crash beautifully if I do a full upgrade. (Does such a list exist?)

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Going from SuSE 6.4 to SuSE 7.0 is going to be a lot of work for me.

Any major update is usually accompanied by deeper changes. The golden rule, when in production, is to update because there is a real reason, and not merely "for the kicks" of doing so! :-)

I know. Which is why I threw myself into it on the list just now. I would like to know whether there is a real reason for me to up- date now.

[I hope my English is right.]

Your English is excellent. :)

Of course, if one can afford it, it is nice to have a spare machine just for playing with new releases and test them, getting acquainted with the differences, before doing the move for real.

That's what I'm doing, I can't afford _not_ to. Bithing about it as I proceed. The ultimate disaster is if I do a full upgrade on my whole system, only to discover that I have to do it all over. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Nothing gives such Sysadmin, Mathematics dept. Fax: (+47) 555-89672 weight and dignity University of Bergen Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 to a mail as a properly system@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no formatted .signature with a good quote. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

François Pinard wrote:

[Bjørn Tore Sund]

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All of a sudden /usr/doc/packages was empty, and everything was in /usr/share/doc/packages. While the packages themselves, it seems, as a rule expects to find the doc in /usr/doc/packages.

That particular change was necessary to be LSB standards compliant, the FHS demands this location now. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq