Serge Caron wrote:
> 
> >This is where I get lost.  When you said:
> >
> >``When I want to backup, I simply remove the write protect tab on the
> >floppy. I can assure you that it takes a lot of config data to fill
> >1.6Mb of compressed space.''
> >
> >I thought that you were backing up *only* config data.  How does your
> >sed process facilitate this quoted intent of yours?
> 
> Actually, the process is more like *I don't backup program binaries* :-).
> Because of the subset of programs I work with, taking care of /etc and
>  /var - /var/log - /var/adm - /var/lib/lrpkg - /var/run - /var/lock -
> /var/spool -/var/tmp } gives me what I want. YMMV :)

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Let me reduce my confusion to its firstmost problem: How does your sed
process facilitate ``*I don't backup program binaries*''?

AFAIK, ${pkg}.list files -- _minus_ ${pkg}.exclude.list files -- define
which files comprise the ${pkg} package -- correct?

Once you eliminate all files under etc, /etc and ./etc from ${pkg}.list
files, what you have left is ``a bunch of binaries'' -- am I wrong?

Wouldn't you reach this same end if all files under etc, /etc and ./etc
were only listed in ${pkg}.exclude.list files?

Until I fully understand this premise of yours, I do not know how to
proceed . . .

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