[gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability

[gentoo-portage-dev] /etc rebuild capability

[Steffen Schwientek]

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


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

[Christian Parpart]

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

[Michiel de Bruijne]

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.

BTW; this question is gentoo-user material.

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[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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