Hi Hendrik, Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:52:05PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> Steve Litt writes: >> >> > After that, take a backup of the new system including /etc and >> > $HOME, then restore *strategic* config files from /etc/ and ~ and >> > ~/.config. By strategic, I mean configs that you hand-crafted. >> > Sometimes it's better to copy your hand-crafting into current >> > package-installed config files. I find this especially true of Dovecot. >> >> I keep track of /etc with etckeeper which puts that directory under git >> version control. That means I can always track back changes to package >> updates or me mucking around there and see exactly what changed. That >> can be very helpful if an `apt upgrade` broke stuff, more so because I >> track "testing" ;-) > > Sounds like etckeeper should be the first thing installed during > Devuan installation, before any packages at all are configured, so as > to track changed that are made during installation. I don't know if tracking all the nitty-gritty package changes *during* installation makes a lot of sense, but I quite habitually install etckeeper as the first package *after* the installation. The first commit (made during its install) then records the system's initial configuration (but not the list of packages that are installed; I add that manually afterwards via `etckeeper vcs commit --amend`). Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
