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

Sat Oct 9 12:32:44 CEST 2010

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
+>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.
+
++1
+this is the very problem why i believe rollbacks are not that easy
+
+-- 
+Luca Berra -- bluca at vodka.it
+