Re: dbackup (was: Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 ...

1999-03-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >btw, simply backing up a system's conffiles can be done by feeding the >output of 'cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles' into tar/cpio/afio etc. That misses files generated in postinst. How about something like this: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles

dbackup (was: Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...)

1999-03-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 01:10:44PM -0800, David Bristel wrote: > This is a good point, and it actually leads to an interesting idea > for a package that would take care of this issue. Now, this is NOT > an easy project, but, what about a package that has a list of the > config files for ALL the pa