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From: George Garvey <tmwg-gentoou@inxservices.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:26:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050830072623.GB12592@inxservices.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508271144.24637.menola@sbcglobal.net>

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:44:24AM -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> 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.

   Perhaps. But, I hope you don't find out the unpleasant way what it
is not to backup your file systems.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-27 16:44 [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update Joe Menola
2005-08-27 16:57 ` 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 ` George Garvey [this message]

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