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From: Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:27:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411260327.48791.trapni@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <co5umi$ct5$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Friday 26 November 2004 1:51 am, 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)

what about putting your /etc dir into a subversion repository?
though, you can revert to any state at any time.

and in case of fs corruption, just re-checkout the last state,
assuming, that you've backed it into a different partition;

regards,
Christian Parpart.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-26  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-26  0:51 [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability Steffen Schwientek
2004-11-26  2:27 ` Christian Parpart [this message]
2004-11-26  8:52 ` Michiel de Bruijne
2004-11-26 11:10   ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Steffen Schwientek

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