2016-05-10 14:32 GMT+08:00 Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org>:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those having
> > > recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by default.
> >
> > After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" has
> > become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-)
> >
>
> No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem
> specific solutions. Similar topic came up a few days ago following
> lunch. It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thing
> does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons.
>
> It should be fairly trivial to automatically backup /etc (and related)
> when 'distribution' is run, either intentionally or accidentally (or by
> commit mistakes, such as this).
>
> Glen
>
>
As an idea, when we run make installworld before it replaces the files, it
could make a backup of those files that will be replaced to
/var/backups/etc${DATE}/ .
Best,
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