On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:04:01PM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote:
> >>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Depends on what you have on there. If it is stuff that is easily replaced
> > from source, recompile. I'd backup the sources, not the programs
> > themselves
> It's almost always faster to recreate everything (idenical) from back
> that from something else. (I suppost don't have any masinal make
> alllocalsoftare ; make install) rule in your source directory.)
That is why I said depends. /usr/local, being the domain of the local
administrator solely, does not fall well under generalistic rules. My
personal preference is to not back up what is there because I normally have
the sources for anything I keep archived up and each one is but a make away.
If I had 40-50 different customized things in there, I'd agree. But I've
never gotten to that point, even on my Slackware systems when I hand updated
everything. I stress that that is me and complete why I started with
"depends" in the quoted material.
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