From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 04:33:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349A8106566C for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD0F8FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lgVr1h0020cQ2SLACgZX2o; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:33:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lgYZ1h0101t3BNj8WgYZcy; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:32:34 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0AFA3102C1C; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:33:36 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: <20111017043336.GA38796@icarus.home.lan> References: <201110150448.19507.olevole@olevole.ru> <4E9B9D6C.5000209@FreeBSD.org> <4E9BAE97.1060802@rdtc.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E9BAE97.1060802@rdtc.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oleg Ginzburg Subject: Re: backup for /var/db/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:33:38 -0000 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 |