Everhart,Glenn
From:	hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.nospam
Sent:	Thursday, April 30, 1998 4:01 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: ALPBASE01_071 patch

In article <6i6ijl$9ms$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, avajhoej@gtech.com writes:
:Great was my surprise when I got a linker warning because
:LBRSHR.EXE was newer than the one in IMAGELIB !  Apperently
:the patch has updated the EXE witout replacing in the library.
..
:That was easy to sobe by simple LIBR/SHARE/REPL, but I would
:like to know:
:  Are there any more problems in the ALPBASE01_071 patch ?

  I am not aware of any errors with the Y2K ECO that comprises part of
  ALPBASE, though I am aware of an installation error involving an
  incorrect (missing) option on the LBRSHR image, within one of the
  constituent command procedures used within the ECO KITINSTAL.  (And
  before anybody infers anything from that statement that they should
  not, I have not been tracking the rest of the ALPBASE ECO kit...)

  The LBRSHR information was passed along to the folks that put together
  the ECO kit shortly after the first report of this problem, and also
  to the customer support folks.  I am not aware of a decision to reissue
  this kit because of this problem.  (At present, I would not expect to 
  see this resolved until/unless we need to reissue the ALPBASE ECO for
  other reasons.)

  Would folks prefer us to reissue these kits for errors such as this,
  or would folks assume there was a problem with the file(s) in the kit
  and pull over and install a new kit?  (When we reissue kits, we normally
  increment the kit release number, which typically implies changes rather
  more extensive than fixing a missing option on the KITINSTAL procedure,
  as there are no image changes here and the files installed are correct.)

  We have obviously been leaning toward "not", for what should now be
  obvious reasons...

  And yes, I know, we should not have had this error occur.  We are
  working to improve the ECO delivery process to try to reduce the
  incidence of these sorts of errors in the future, and to ease the
  matrix of ECO kit interdependencies.

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