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Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:37:53PM -0800 :
> >
> > Configuration is in /etc/urpmi. Data is in /var/lib/urpmi.
> I agree in principle, but I also feel that if this were truly the case,
> backing up and restoring /etc/urpmi/ or mailing someone an entry from
> /etc/urmpi/urpmi.cfg should be enough to get a working system.
If I email to you my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and commonhttpd.conf,
does that mean that you can serve all the same webpages as me? No,
because I didn't send you all the data in /var/www/html. The config is
just a config. The data is just data. The config ties the data to the
service, but if one exists without the other, it doesn't work properly.
Think of the data in /var/lib/urpmi/ as a flat file database. My
concession is that the urpm tools should detect that there is a list
file but ho hdlist, it should offer to you the opportunity to properly
integrate it (ie download/update the missing files) and regen its
config. The only problem is that it needs to have some sort of timeout
because many people (including myself) run these programs in scripts.
If there's no way I can tell it the info it needs, then it will not be
able to complete which means after a few days, my load average is at 50
or so and my machine dies.
Blue skies... Todd
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