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 :)
[ snip ] 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 . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel