On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:36:50 Joshua Isom wrote:
I'm about to downgrade from -CURRENT to 6-STABLE, and since I can't
seem do it in place without screwing around with a lot of stuff, I
might need to reinstall completely.
The proper way to downgrade is to restore the level 0 backups you made before
upgrading, as outlined in /usr/src/UPDATING. Downgrades are especially hard.
But which configuration files are
the ones I need to backup the most? I know rc.conf and loader.conf,
but what else would be needed to easily restore the setup of the
system? Would I just somehow be able to use mergemaster to get a diff
and manually apply everything?
/etc/periodic.conf, /etc/master.passwd aside from the ones you mentioned.
Also, any dir in /etc/ that's not from the base system (/etc/X11* comes to
mind).
To save yourself a headache, I'd rm -rf /etc/rc.d before doing installworld
and run mergemaster as mergemaster -i.
I *think* mergemaster just checks if a CVSId is different, not older. Same for
make delete-old whether a file is in the base system and not in the source
tree. Let's hope for your sake it is :)
--
Mel
People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.
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