[TUHS] Package Management

Tim Bradshaw tfb at tfeb.org
Wed Jan 25 04:58:09 AEST 2017


On 24 Jan 2017, at 17:46, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A quick look through some manuals shows that SunOS 3 (same timeframe) appears to have had a user-friendly initial setup program but it's not clear to me if it could be used after an installation to deinstall/modify/upgrade/etc. 

I don't think it could.  I also remember that SunOS 4's installer was somehow much more rudimentary.  I remember (for both) that things like patches were just tarballs or some equivalent: there was no registry I think.  However my memory is not reliable.

--tim



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