Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

2009-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: snip I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the number of exceptions grows over time (/etc/X11/xorg.conf,

Re: Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

2009-04-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:18:01 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: snip I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude rc.d, but the number of