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Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
- Subject: Re: What needs to be recompiled when upgrading to 2.1?
- From: Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:10:51 -0500 (EST)
- cc: roland@frob.com, aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > providing a migratedb binary, that given a db 1.85 binary database will
> > migrate it to db2 ?
>
> I thought that db2 would automatically migrate a db 1.85 database? The
> reverse direction is the tricky bit.
And that is the problem - we are not sure if that db is used and updated
by many programs and upgrading it automatically might screw up somebody.
That is why it would be great to leave this decision in the hands of the
user itself.
Cristian
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