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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Dufflebunk said:
> 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?

For starters we could say anything in /etc, that should cover (almost) all
config files.

BTW, isn't REAP supposed to take care of this for us?  Or is that just for
dispelling?

When you have a chance (unless you're already planning on this) could we
have that in the Options of Sorcery (with us being capable of specifying
our own directory)?  :)

-sandalle

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