From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 22:42:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6BF16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:42:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6F243D48 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:42:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j12MgTOV071098 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:42:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2AD0661A4; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:42:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:42:36 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050202224236.GA32923@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <4200EE07.2070700@comcast.net> <20050202153016.GA66813@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: upgrading FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:42:31 -0000 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > You're so right ;-) > Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important > data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy > part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running > system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very > important data dirs, but what others are too? Save everything, just to be sure. The following strategy has helped me to keep track of run-control files: In my home-directory, I've created a directory named setup. If I want to change one of the run-control files, the first thing I do is make a copy of that file in ~/setup (or a relevant subdirectory), where I check the unmodified version in rcs(1) with ci(1). Next I check out the files (with co(1)), make the changes I want and check them in again. The last step is to copy the modified run-control file back where it belongs. This way you'll have a single point where all changed run-control files are stored, and thanks to RCS you can even easily see what the changes were between versions. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAVdcEnfvsMMhpyURAny4AJ0Ttgbbp/YJnAkTt2XJeysArSwpCgCfZbBm krRgE9d4I1f0y9dqzxBaHOo= =gL/W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--