From: dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David Knight French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3.2 PTF nightmares
Date: 14 Sep 1992 03:16:32 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
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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  
>IX25275 /usr/lib/boot/tftp inslist entry should not list an oldpath     
>IX24792 errpt and errclear need to accept alternate input filename      
>IX24802 message file changes for errpt -i and errclear -i options       
>IX25389 support for booting from a serial-link disk drive               
>IX24806 chdclient & rmdclient hang when client is running               
>IX24355 System hangs (888) Service IPL no printer in S1/S2              
>IX25133 Update Diagnostic CEREADME file with maintenance fixes          
>IX25287 Moving the token ring card causes network boot to hang at c21
>IX25784 rmdclient not deleting all info when remote paging file removed 
>IX24975 Hardware Diagnostic Support                                     
>IX24977 Hardware Diagnostic Support                                     
>IX25126 Diagnostics should be able to detect past checkstops.           
>IX25128 Confusing screens in Diagnostics for Graphics Adapter.
>IX25131 Change async diag fru bucket for srn 8xx-12x                    
>IX25134 Tape Diagnostics fix for type ahead problem.                    
>IX26193 bosboot commands fail if LANG not set to En_US or C             
>IX26883 unable to force boot mode to normal or service [bosboot -M]     
>IX26884 /usr and /var need "fsck -fp" during boot and getrootfs         
>IX26891 Additional boot capabilities.                                   
>IX24865 mksysb fails when fileystem close to full                       
>IX25293 MKSYSB EXCLUDES ROOTVG FILESYSTEMS WHEN MOUNT POINT IS IN       
>IX26116 Fix the mkinsttape so that backup works on full systems         
>IX26253 MKSYSB: CHECK FOR WRITABLE TAPE BEFORE STARTING                 
>IX26892 Additional BOS install capabilities.                            
>IX27213 Unable to install from a mksysb image backup.                   
>
>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!


	Well, well.  I just got an update for the dbx crashes
	system problem.  When the rep asked for type of media
	I said floppy disk would be fine, he responded that
	it was to big and wanted to know if I had an 8mm tape.
	After getting the tape I see why 8mm was needed.  It had
	over 100Megs of patches!!!  One being a csh fix (U407535)
	that wasn't ordered but sent.  Well, the APAR info 
	seemed to say it was fixing a serious bug, so I applied it.
	My regret was in doing so.  It fixed a "problem" that has
	never worked in csh and at the same time broke \<retuen>
	withing single quotes, so all inline awk scripts bo 
	longer worked.

	I am getting off the track, but this csh patch also came
	with many other "fixes", mainly things pertaining to the
	accounting scripts.  Well, guess what?  When I rejected the
	update because csh stopped working, it removed all of the
	other fixes too.  What bugs me is that the accounting patch also
	fixed a minor problem we were having.  I finally had to go
	back and cp csh to csh.old, apply the patch and then rename
	the "fixed" csh to csh.new and then csh.old back to csh.  This
	is the only way I could find in info  to get only part of the
	fix installed, not that the installp man page is the easiest
	peice of reading!

	--Dave
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