On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:58:25PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It is more like "the application installer does not tell the backup tool > > to backup its /etc/apt/sources.list". The backup tool is generic one, > > applications tell it what to backup and how to restore data. > > Yes, but for files outside of /home/user/ (like > /etc/apt/sources.list), you have to also modify osso-backup so that it > will actually overwrite that file on restore.
I've noticed that settings.zip contains a bunch of files in Root/etc/osso-af-init/, alongside files in Root/home/user/. Is that handled specially then? > > I have been campaining for sources.list backup/restore for quite > > some time now. AFAIK the Application Manager in Sardine still does > > not ask for sources.list to be backed-up and restored. But I might > > be wrong (Marius?). > > It does since version 4.27. I am still not totally happy about > backing it up, since that file is to some extend specific to the OS > release you are running. In the future, we might need to get smarter > about it. The Ubuntu update-manager goes and replaces the distro field in /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. dapper -> edgy) for all the official repositories. I suppose the restore tool in OS2007 could do the same. Marius Gedminas -- This sentence does in fact not have the property it claims not to have.
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