Re: help me upgrade, please

[Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>]

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> Steve Williams wrote:
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>     > I have HylaFax4.0pl0 installed in my system, and I compiled pl1. Now I
>     > want to install pl1, but I'm affraid just making "make install"
>     > without "faxsetup" could not be enough.
>     > 
>     > Please, take away my fears, and tell me I don't need to reconfigure it
>     > all, and "make install" is enough...
>     > 
>     > I'm waiting for this to upgrade...
>     > 
>     
>     Yes, it should be fine.  Make sure that NONE of the executables from pl0 
>     are running when you do the "make install".  For example, hfaxd, faxgetty,
>     faxq.
>     
>     If you have done customization to any files ( faxcover.ps, notify,... ),
>     I would make a backup copy of them as well, just to make sure.  The install
>     script SHOULD notice that they are different & put a message "Local Changes
>     to XXXX", but it's better to be save than sorry.
>     
>     The config files won't be touched, & all should be OK.
> 
> I'm not really sure about that; e.g. this would not work if you've
> changed the location of the spooling area or some other values
> before running ./configure;
> 
> faxsetup(1M) writes a file etc/setup.cache which all other
> server scripts include for getting the environment; if this
> file no longer reflect your values from ./configure HylaFAX
> will not work;
> 

Yes, you are correct.  I was "blinded" by the way that I have been 
doing things here, & a) did not consider the whole picture
		     b) did not explain myself good enough.

I have a "config.site" that I preserve across builds of different Patch
Levels.  By putting this into my build directory of the new patch level 
BEFORE I run ./configure, I am sure to have the same configuration, given
that nothing radical has changed in the source code itself.

This is the step that I have been doing for so long, I forgot that most
people would NOT be doing this.

Sorry about the confusion...

-- 
	Steve Williams, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	Genie Computer Systems Inc.
	steve@genie96.com