> On Jan 15, 2025, at 2:24 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I found why my 1.4-RC1 was "broken". > Simply, I was using full-usb, where utilities are present but are not > installed by default. > So I was seeing packages from previous installed version of FreeDOS, for dog > and rcal... > because they were not installed.
Correct. Like I mentioned in my earlier reply, those packages are not part of BASE or FULL. Therefore they will not be installed by the installer by default. > > If I had used defaut CD version rather than Full-USB, I would have seen the > same result > because utilities are not present on it (only on Bonus CD). Correct. Only the packages from the selected set (BASE or FULL) will be installed or updated by the installer. > So... user tend to think like making a clean install because that what most > OS do... > but in FreeDOS, you install over... keeping old stuff if they are not > overwritten. IDK and IHNI whether most users want a clean install or to just update the existing OS. I suspect that many advanced users will have custom configuration files and other personalized changes. For me personally, I do both. For a clean install, I format the drive first. To update an OS, I install over the existing OS and restore my personal changes. While it would be possible for the installer to automatically upgrade packages that are not in the selected package set, it would add more complexity to the installation process. Plus, it also has a few other drawbacks. For example, if you currently have an earlier version of FreeDOS Full and a couple Bonus packages installed, then only want to install the latest BASE of FreeDOS, there would be some side effects by automatically upgrading everything. Although you selected BASE, upgrading installed packages would result in a FULL install anyway. Plus, it would also require a LiveCD user to also have downloaded the BonusCD. I don’t think that is the way to go. I think simply updating the set of packages the user requested to install is preferable. I don’t think there is a perfect solution to the issue. But, it is probably better to err on the side of caution. If needed, the user can update any other packages at a later time. > > Which may make you using an older version thinking it is a part of the new > version. It is easy to update the packages without installing by running “FDIMPLES /UPDATE” That will not change the booted kernel or FreeCOM. Nor will it replace your system configuration files. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
