-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 10:15 am, frankie wrote:
> We know that its always better to install rather then upgrade, > > But I get really sick of reinstalling endlessly to get the latest stuff.. > and I was thinking about that. > > Wouldn't it be a fantastic thing if Mandrake created an "Export system & > user Settings" drake tool.??? > > > and a drake import settings. this tool would go and collect settings from > running services, users and security, and you could save the config to a > floppy, wipe the drive, reinstall and insert the floppy and run the import > drake, which sets it all up for you again.. (that way you get to have the > latest config files, rather then keeping files like smb.conf and putting it > in the next version..) > > what do you guys thing? is that a good idea or what? I wrote a shell script which copies various files to a directory, then .tar.bz2.gpg's it, then copies it to a remote server. This does an excellent job without effort. The system configuration (services, security, configuration files) is fine and worth doing, but package configuration is another matter. The problem with Linux is choice: you can't assume people will use certain packages. I'm sure most use kmail or Evolution in some sense, but the percentage is definitely not as high as that of Windows users who use Outlook Express (from the contents of my mailbox, easily 95 per cent; there are progressively fewer and fewer people using Eudora, for one). drakbackup looks interesting though :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Q85JXzGCRjP1DsMRAnYCAJsGeoLx+K99e8+HjtDx/nw6x4/Q8wCfc9Mp x3rFLElPf2Q6zwWJD2YEJ6I= =1ung -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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