Correction: my bad . . .
"Michael D. Schleif" wrote:
>
> Voilą!
>
> Serge Caron wrote:
> >
> > >Let me reduce my confusion to its firstmost problem: How does your sed
> > >process facilitate ``*I don't backup program binaries*''?
> > >
> > >AFAIK, ${pkg}.list files -- _minus_ ${pkg}.exclude.list files -- define
> > >which files comprise the ${pkg} package -- correct?
> > >
> > >Once you eliminate all files under etc, /etc and ./etc from ${pkg}.list
> > >files, what you have left is ``a bunch of binaries'' -- am I wrong?
> > >
> > >Wouldn't you reach this same end if all files under etc, /etc and ./etc
> > >were only listed in ${pkg}.exclude.list files?
> > >
> > >Until I fully understand this premise of yours, I do not know how to
> > >proceed . . .
> >
> > OK, so lets process this from the start. Here is the contents of
> > /var/lib/lrpkg/bindc.list, an old BIND 8.something package:
> >
> > etc/init.d/bind
> > etc/named.conf
> > usr/sbin/named
> > usr/sbin/ndc
> > var/lib/lrpkg/bindc.*
> > var/named
> >
> > Only concentrate on those two etc entries. The package author did not define
> > a .local file to backup just part of the package. The package is running off
> > CD and I can't rewrite it there :-). Finally, even if I could, I DO NOT WANT
> > to. I want to keep this package in whatever form it was delivered for the
> > entire duration of its useful life.
[ snip ]
> Two (2) questions, at this point:
>
> [1] The *only* way to make your ${pkg}.list modifications stick is to
> perform a backup -- right? Since your example, bindc.lrp, includes *NO*
> LIST file and you have no time to create one, then you need to backup
^^^^
This should read: LOCAL
> the *entire* package, just to enforce persistence of this modification
> -- right? If so, what do you gain? Hopefully, it is not a large
> package, nor that you have only that floppy on which to store it ;<
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