Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:33:36 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oleg Ginzburg <olevole@olevole.ru> Subject: Re: backup for /var/db/ports Message-ID: <20111017043336.GA38796@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <4E9BAE97.1060802@rdtc.ru> References: <201110150448.19507.olevole@olevole.ru> <4E9B9D6C.5000209@FreeBSD.org> <4E9BAE97.1060802@rdtc.ru>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:27:03AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 17.10.2011 10:13, Doug Barton ?????: > > On 10/14/2011 17:48, Oleg Ginzburg wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> With /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb I would also suggest backing up > >> /var/db/ports dir > > > > I'm curious as to the reason for doing this. The options are easy to > > recreate, and not particularly dynamic. > > How do you recreate them without backup after N years passed? :-) And who's to say that all of the WITH and WITHOUT knobs for that port will remain the same after N years passed? Or that there aren't others added/removed by then? I do see the justification in what you want, however. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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