From: "Robert Comer" 

> How can a fixpack have prerequsites if they are cumulative?

OS/2 didn't SP's (service packs, same thing) didn't have prerequisites. 
PTF do have prerequisites, but they are the same as hot-fixes.

>like you had to have fixpack xx before installing this
> fixpack, etc. That's not cumulative in my book.

I never had to do that with a general fixpack.

- Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:42ff44b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> How can a fixpack have prerequsites if they are cumulative?
>
> Or maybe you are talking about warp fixpacks, I know they added an
> uninstall
> sometime after I dropped OS/2 but when I was applying fixpacks I remember
> the readme said stuff like you had to have fixpack xx before installing
> this
> fixpack, etc. That's not cumulative in my book.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:42feb7a7{at}w3.nls.net...
>> They were cumulative...
>>
>> IBM did tend to split fixpacks up into subsystem types for some of the
>> subsystems, but that's the only difference.
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:42feb605{at}w3.nls.net...
>> They weren't cumulative, and IBM thought that was the way to go because
>> it
>> gave people the option to not install a fixpack if it created an
>> incompatibility with some application. MS on the other hand did things
> right
>> and made service packs cumulative which forced app vendors to fix their
>> stupid apps when something broke. Having been thru that before is one of
> the
>> reasons I keep promoting the idea of current rollups so you have one
> service
>> pack and one rollup to get current. Simpler is always better and leave
>> the
>> problems of broken apps to the app vendors.
>>
>> Even the OS/2ers said they liked the NT way of doing cumulative service
>> packs better.
>>
>> Geo.
>>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:42feaebf{at}w3.nls.net...
>>      I didn't realize IBM's fix packs were not cumulative like Windows.
>> Maybe my memory is failing but I thought I had applied them that way.
>>
>>   Rich
>>
>>
>
>

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