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  1. <sect2>
  2. <title>Command explanations</title>
  3. <para><userinput>make update:</userinput> This does the same as a
  4. <userinput>make install</userinput> with the exception that make update
  5. doesn't make backups of files it's replacing. One of the things
  6. net-tools replaces is sh-utils's version of
  7. <filename>/bin/hostname</filename> (net-tools's version is far better
  8. than sh-utils's version).</para>
  9. <para>Also, if you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
  10. future, a <userinput>make update</userinput> won't backup all the files
  11. from a previous net-tools installation.</para>
  12. </sect2>