From: Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:44:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508271144.24637.menola@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and
admittedly myself doing something stupid.
I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running
update.
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which
creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving us
goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right.
Any thoughts?
-jm
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-27 16:44 Joe Menola [this message]
2005-08-27 16:57 ` [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update Kai Ole Schultz
2005-08-27 17:16 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-29 5:59 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-29 11:42 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-27 17:00 ` Alex Schuster
2005-08-29 22:05 ` Fernando Canizo
2005-08-28 2:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Alvin A ONeal Jr
2005-08-28 10:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-30 7:26 ` [gentoo-user] " George Garvey
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