On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:52:05PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve Litt writes: > > > After that, take a backup of the new system including /etc and > > $HOME, then restore *strategic* config files from /etc/ and ~ and > > ~/.config. By strategic, I mean configs that you hand-crafted. > > Sometimes it's better to copy your hand-crafting into current > > package-installed config files. I find this especially true of Dovecot. > > I keep track of /etc with etckeeper which puts that directory under git > version control. That means I can always track back changes to package > updates or me mucking around there and see exactly what changed. That > can be very helpful if an `apt upgrade` broke stuff, more so because I > track "testing" ;-)
Sounds like etckeeper should be the first thing installed during Devuan installation, before any packages at all are configured, so as to track changed that are made during installation. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
