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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)</H1>
<B>Luca Berra</B>
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<I>Thu Oct 14 23:12:56 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:44:39AM +0100, Buchan Milne wrote:
><i>On Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:10:36 Renaud MICHEL wrote:
</I>>><i> On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote :
</I>>><i> > Note that configuration files that have been changed from the
</I>>><i> > installation default are often already saved. (Generally ".old" is
</I>>><i> > appended to the configuration file name, sometimes ".new" to the new
</I>>><i> > configuration file.)
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> But here you are only talking about system-wide configuration files, which
</I>>><i> are known of rpm as they are part of the package and marked as config
</I>>><i> files. But what about user specific configuration files?
</I>>><i> For the easy kind, where a program will have a single configuration file
</I>>><i> (or dedicated directory), a pre-inst script could find it in the home of
</I>>><i> each users and backup them. But you have cases of programs which have
</I>>><i> configuration scattered in multiple shared directories (like KDE), or even
</I>>><i> non-deterministic configuration files and it can become very tricky to find
</I>>><i> all the files to backup.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>A snapshot-based solution (e.g. on btrfs) would mean you don't have to "find
</I>><i>all the files".
</I>
uhm. we are speaking about user files, what if reverting a snapshot
makes users loose a whole day of work.
L.
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