[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: /etc rebuild capability

[Steffen Schwientek]

Michiel de Bruijne schrieb:

> On Friday 26 November 2004 01:51, Steffen Schwientek wrote:
>> Is there a possibility to rebuild the /etc directory, if it's heaviliy
>> misconfigured?
>> Just something which will provide the default values (or, better create
>> something etc-update can handle)
>>
>> Steffen
>
> Instead of etc-update you can use dispatch-conf and activate rcs. This way
> you can rollback all (or some) changes you have made to the conf-files.

OK, this is an option, if the dispatch-conf was properly configured. Here it
was not configured.

So there is no way to reconfigure etc, if the user hasn?t set something for
himself at the beginning of the installation.
>
> BTW; this question is gentoo-user material.

I asked in the german gentoo mailing list before here.
This topic should be in the install manual, not in the advanced portage
manual. 
Or a basic backup system should be created without user-interaction.

Steffen





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