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Subject: Re: Tar output mode for installworld
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> Being able to record a series of incremental changes in a filesystem
> hierarchy, and then roll them back as required.  That would be
> exceedingly useful, and I think your 'ntree' format has virtually
> everything necessary to do that.  The most obvious missing bit I can
> see is creating a backup of a file before overwriting it with
> different content.

Is this something that requires changes to the specification
file format, or just a feature of the tool that uses the
specification file?

If the former, what do you envision would be required?

Tim Kientzle