[Info-vax] Packages

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 15:28 -0400, John Reagan wrote:
> 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.

I did suspect that might be the case. Oh well.

Maybe I can move my data off the system onto its own disk image and
then attach it to the vmdk image. Of course, I would need to configure
the vmdk image with its hostname and other things to make it useable
first. 

Then every year I can just replace my vmdk with their latest that they
release, configure it and then attach my existing disk image. 

That's a pain but workable. But I just wish they'd reinstate the
hobbyist programme. Some of us can find issues and report them quickly.
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Tactical Nuclear Kittens