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

[Kerry Main]

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> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance
> on the IT road ahead
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> 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.
> 

Well, there must be a hard or soft link of some sort because after the fact, 
I did a dir... on all the non-system disk GNV sub directories and a number 
of system dir's showed up. Hence, the original delete/tree cmd continued 
deleting on the system disk.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com