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On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:28:53AM +0200, Rafael Fern?ndez L?pez wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My suggestion for portage is: when you do an "emerge -vuD world", you |
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> have to work at the end of the emerging with the /etc config files and |
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> see the differences to know if you want to overwrite file by file or |
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> not. |
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> Well, what I want is to have a backup of all them (one backup, and |
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> only one). For that goal, it can be used a new option in make.conf |
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> like "backup_etc_files=yes" if you want to turn this on. |
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> By turning this on, an "emerge -vuD world" can be done in one shot, I |
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> mean, you can do an emerge -vuD world, and all the files could be |
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> replaced (overwrited) by the new ones (etc-update), but you'll be able |
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> to access to your backups if anything is wrong, so you don't have to |
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> go file by file looking at the differences between them. |
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> I suggest to name them "whatever.conf" (our original file) ==> |
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> "whatever.conf.backup" (our backuped file) |
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This breaks down pretty quickly... a peacemeal pam upgrade, for |
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example can result in you locked out of your system. |
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Baselayout updates to /etc/passwd can accomplish the same thing, and |
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not accounting for /etc/fstab resulting in an unbootable system... |
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~harring |