On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 06:40:29PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > following up from the multiple recent thread regarding best way to > upgrade the system and etcmanage, I wonder if a quicker and better > solution could be the following: > > 1) Insert installation cd/usb and boot > 2) mount the installed system and mv /etc to /etc.old > 3) Upgrade all sets, including etc > 4) Copy/restore individual files from /etc.old if/when needed > > Alternatively, I remember (but memory may fail) that old Slackware > versions came with a script to rename all copies of /etc files with a > .new suffix. > > Maybe one could write a script to detect if a file exists, and if so, > install a new file with a .new extension. > > I am not sure if etcmanage already does that.
I skip etc set when upgrading and later on update using "etcupdate". Worked for me so far. (What is etcmanage? Different from etcupdate?) Mayuresh