X11 and 3.1G

[donl mathis]

In article <Aug.11.17.02.07.1989.21301 at topaz.rutgers.edu>, elkins at topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins) writes:
> > We just received 3.1G, and after performing an automatic installation, now
> > ...
> 
> You have to go back and use manual installation, list
> available subsystems, and you will notice that the X11R3 Execution
> Environment software and man pages have not been installed.  It seems
> that you must manually select them for installation.
> 
> George Elkins

This is true.  The installation tool uses the online installation
history to determine default subsystem selections.  If an older version
of the subsystem was installed, you get the new one by default.  If you
an older version could be installed but isn't, you don't get the new
one by default.  If there is no record of the subsystem one way or the
other, such as the new X11 subsystem, you get the "builtin" default.

Maintenance tapes were originally intended to be simple overlays of a
reasonable subset of the other products, the assumption being that we
would use them to provide a few new files.  The builtin default is
always "no", so that if an older subsystem is not already installed,
you don't get the new one by default.  Unfortunately, the X subsystems
in 3.1G are new, and *can't* be already installed, so they never get
installed by default.  We have slightly abused the maintenance
mechanism in 3.1G by introducing new subsystems, the result being that
algorithm can't quite keep up.  It will be fixed.

In the mean time, the Subsystem Selection menu in Manual can be used to
poke through the list of subsystems and make sure you're getting
everything you want.
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- donl mathis at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA

donl at sgi.com