Re: How to copy configuration between instances/platforms.

2008-11-13 Thread David Stenglein
Well, it took a year and a half, but I finally got around to this. ;-) I did an upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 8.10. Not a huge switch, but I reinstalled openpkg from scratch, so it's about the same as changing platforms. I followed the instructions from Thomas and it pretty much worked. The

Re: How to copy configuration between instances/platforms.

2007-03-16 Thread David Stenglein
Thomas, Thanks very much for all of the infomation. Work has been busy this week and I hope to look at all of this some more this weekend. -Dave On 3/15/07, Thomas Lotterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cloning OpenPKG: bootstrap http://www.lotterer.net/blog/en/41 cloning OpenPKG: packages http

Re: How to copy configuration between instances/platforms.

2007-03-15 Thread Thomas Lotterer
cloning OpenPKG: bootstrap http://www.lotterer.net/blog/en/41 cloning OpenPKG: packages http://www.lotterer.net/blog/en/42 cloning OpenPKG: configuration http://www.lotterer.net/blog/en/43 There is potential for more work. Some applications store configuration information in non-text files,

Re: How to copy configuration between instances/platforms.

2007-03-15 Thread Thomas Lotterer
Dear Dave, I'm looking into the topic of OpenPKG Instance migration for quite a while. My goal was to automate this. Unfortunately, some conceptual enhancements of OpenPKG into the "configuration management" area would be required to achieve full automation. Today, human brainpower is absolutely