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

Thu Oct 14 23:12:56 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:44:39AM +0100, Buchan Milne wrote:
+>On Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:10:36 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.
+>
+>A snapshot-based solution (e.g. on btrfs) would mean you don't have to "find 
+>all the files".
+
+uhm. we are speaking about user files, what if reverting a snapshot
+makes users loose a whole day of work.
+
+L.
+
+-- 
+Luca Berra -- bluca at vodka.it
+