[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

Sat Oct 9 11:10:36 CEST 2010

On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote :
+> Note that configuration files that have been changed from the 
+> installation default are often already saved.  (Generally ".old" is 
+> appended to the configuration file name, sometimes ".new" to the new 
+> configuration file.)
+
+But here you are only talking about system-wide configuration files, which 
+are known of rpm as they are part of the package and marked as config files.
+But what about user specific configuration files?
+For the easy kind, where a program will have a single configuration file (or 
+dedicated directory), a pre-inst script could find it in the home of each 
+users and backup them. But you have cases of programs which have 
+configuration scattered in multiple shared directories (like KDE), or even 
+non-deterministic configuration files and it can become very tricky to find 
+all the files to backup.
+And you have the really hard kind, where the same configuration file may be 
+shared by different packages. For example, plasma applet configurations are 
+stored in a few ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* files.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+