A couple of years ago I filed a backuppc issue on github (https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/486) complaining that localconfig.pl wasn't documented. It turns out that it's a Debian addition, courtesy of their patches when packaging backuppc. I had learned this a while ago, and I apologize to Ged for not updating the github issue (which I confess I'd forgotten about).
Anyway, Ged just asked whether it's useful, and whether the functionality should move into backuppc proper. Well, at some point, when I wasn't sure whether localconfig.pl was a feature I should be relying on, I decided to simply move all of my local config onto the tail of config.pl. (Previously it had been sprinkled throughout, with bits of comment here and there telling me why I'd changed something or other.) Putting it all at the end isn't quite as clean, management-wise, as having local changes in a separate file, but at least it keeps the release-to-release diffs clean(er), which is important at system upgrade time. So I'm not going to champion the feature too hard, even though I think it's a good idea. I have an adequate workaround. But if anyone else uses it, and/or thinks it should become permanent in all packages, I can't imagine it would be a lot of work for it to be implemented. And I'd probably start using it again in that case. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 48.6 degrees) _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
