Hi all, I was reading /. for a 100G backup system for the erquested user... And I cam e acorss this post.
I really like the idea of meta package. It's a neat way to store system package list.. What say? Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /home/dir (Score:5, Insightful) by xant (xant*users.sourceforge.nothin.but.net) on Tuesday December 11, @05:24PM (#2689655) (User #99438 Info | http://nestofcandles.org/) This is where Unix's concept and implementation of HOME directory really shines. In the Windows paradigm, things can and do end up anywhere on the system, because you can write anywhere you want to. Application software is under no pressure to write to a standard place so you end up with things in: the desktop, the application's home directory, the user's home directory (if you're in win2k or later), a temp directory, etc. In Unix users have 2 places to write things: $HOME, and /tmp. If you don't want to keep a file around later, just remember not to put it in tmp. Then only back up $HOME. Everything else on your system can be restored automatically from either the net or the CD media that you purchased. Not to distro-bait, but Debian in particular shines here because apt makes it so damn easy to bring a system back to the state you wanted. For myself I have created a meta-package (.deb) which does nothing but depend on the applications I want installed on every desktop system: galeon, gnucash, xchat, gaim, xmms, vim-gtk, and a handful of others. Then I back up my meta-package, all of 10k including a few shell scripts I wrote for myself. Install my meta-package on a new system, and voil�, apt fetches and installs every app, that I need to continue working, dependencies included. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
