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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)</H1>
<B>Luca Berra</B>
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<I>Sat Oct 9 12:32:44 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
><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 files.
</I>><i>But what about user specific configuration files?
</I>><i>For the easy kind, where a program will have a single configuration file (or
</I>><i>dedicated directory), a pre-inst script could find it in the home of each
</I>><i>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>And you have the really hard kind, where the same configuration file may be
</I>><i>shared by different packages. For example, plasma applet configurations are
</I>><i>stored in a few ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* files.
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+1
this is the very problem why i believe rollbacks are not that easy
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Luca Berra -- <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bluca at vodka.it</A>
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