Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:27:48
Message-Id: 200411260327.48791.trapni@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability by Steffen Schwientek
1 On Friday 26 November 2004 1:51 am, Steffen Schwientek wrote:
2 > Is there a possibility to rebuild the /etc directory, if it's heaviliy
3 > misconfigured?
4 > Just something which will provide the default values (or, better create
5 > something etc-update can handle)
6
7 what about putting your /etc dir into a subversion repository?
8 though, you can revert to any state at any time.
9
10 and in case of fs corruption, just re-checkout the last state,
11 assuming, that you've backed it into a different partition;
12
13 regards,
14 Christian Parpart.
15
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