[Info-vax] Packages

[John Reagan]

On 8/9/2024 3:16 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 14:40 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/9/2024 2:28 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> This might be a stupid question, but is it possible to package up
>>> things like compilers on an existing system to upgrade another
>>> system?
>>
>> What would your package provide that the PCSI/VMSINSTAL kit does
>> not provide?
> 
> Oh, it's about the vmdk images that VSI sent out. I already have a
> working system that I got under their previous hobbyist programme, jsut
> wondered if it was possible to update my existing system by repackaging
> stuff from the vmdk image and upgrading my system.
 From the vmdk?  Probably not.  A compiler install updates the CLD, the 
HELP, and puts various files on the system (compiler, message files, 
startup files, release notes, maybe RTLs), etc.  In particular, the CLD 
isn't just sitting around for all products.  I would guess that VERB 
could extract it however?  But you don't know the exact list of things 
to move/apply.  That is all inside the PCSI/VMSINSTAL kit.