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On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote: |
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> > >> Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation? |
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> > > tar up /etc. |
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> > Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't |
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> > been tested are not backups! :D |
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> /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP |
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> wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. |
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> Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway, |
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For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back later. |
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The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints |
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