[Info-vax] VSI software

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-06 15:19:58 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> In article <rgfs58$clu$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
>> Given the existing mess with the V7.3-2 system here, wiping and 
>> starting over and transferring over just user files is probably the 
>> fastest path.
> 
> No, the 7.3-2 systems are fine.  The 8.4 system has one problem that I 
> know of, the DECwindows problem.

I'm expecting the issue here was already latent in the existing V7.3-2 
configuration, and would not expect a different outcome when upgrading 
that V7.3-2 configuration to a VSI release as had arisen previously 
with that HPE V8.4 upgrade.

Most long-standing OpenVMS installs are morasses. The morass is slower 
to arrive with some administrative policies, but pretty much every 
OpenVMS install I've ever met gets messy.

Re-installing is not in the ken of most OpenVMS folks, and OpenVMS 
lacks tools to migrate contents to a new install, I know. But 
reinstalling gets you back to a reproducible configuration.



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