[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[hb]

On 02/04/2016 02:37 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
> The work required to research, review, download, & install each of the 
> individual pkgs is fairly significant and I took the defaults for each pkg

Container files do have advantages. But that there is significant work
to install a package is a problem with the VMS package manager, aka
PCSI. As you probably know, there are package managers in the Linux
world which with a single command install a package including all
required ones, if they are not yet installed. This includes checking for
compatible software revisions of all these packages.

> (after learning my lesson about moving GNV to a non-system disk and
> then using delete/tree to cleanup a directory with hard links pointing 
> back at the system disk - hint ... get out the backups for the sys disk)

Hard links do not point from one disk to another. So something else was
used by GNV. Regarding following a "link" delete/tree is not different
from delete without /tree when using the ellipsis (...) wildcard. As fas
as I can see both follow a hard link but do not follow a symbolic link.
The feature of delete/tree is to avoid "SYSTEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY" messages,
which usually requires at least another delete command.