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["Dufflebunk" <dufflebunk AT go-nix.ca>]

You may all be happy to know that the sorcery team has possible partial
solution, the ability to backup files before they are replaced. Althoug
there are several sorcery projects going on, we are going to try to get this
in soon. People who are worried about loosing stuff can define 'export
INSTALLWATCH_BACKUP_PATH=/root/BACKUP.iw/'. Then files get copied there
before they are overwritten. This has been an undocumented feature of
installwatch for the last few versions.

But some questions which may help us, how would you (programaticly) define a
config file? Anything in /etc? Anything ending in .conf?

--------- Original Message --------
> Hi ppl,
>
> As I come from a more Debian background before I wised up,
> and having experienced some problems with config files being overwritten
after
> a spell update, I´d like to volunteer to work on the following and like to
> hear any comments and or suggestions:
>
> For the ones that are not familliar with debian a shot explanation:
> Debian´s apt-get has a simple but effective way of handling config files
being
> overwritten. It alerts the user when a file wil be overwritten and gives
some
> options:
> 1. Overwrite (the old file will be renamed to configfile.backup)
> 2. Show diff oldfile newfile
> 3. Do not overwrite
> 4. Put on hold and deal with it later
>
> This is all being done in a shell, very crude, but really effective.
> (The way we like it ;) )
>
> This seems to be a nice addition to casting, solving some of the
frustrations
> users(including me) have had to go through, when losing their configs
after an
> update.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
> Rob
>
>
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