-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/20/2017 06:12 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 2017-05-20 19:43, Todd Lasman wrote: > > The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, > > make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned > > template. > > > - From the Qubes website: > > "It is highly recommended to clone the original template, and make any > > changes in the clone instead of the original template. The following > > command clones the template. Replace your-new-clone with your desired > > name..." > > > My question is, why? It seems to me that if you ever needed the original > > template back, you could just download it again from the repository. Am > > I missing something? > > > Todd > > > The main reasons are that user customizations are not guaranteed to be > preserved in RPM-managed templates, and they're harder to back up and > restore. > >
Hmm. Not sure I understand that logic. The cloned templates still need to be managed and backed up, so where's the advantage? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZIQKOAAoJEOaMWwQFV9eFyLkP/R3z2y1BcWTz0JqRywG2Bpss blNct9980O5I2uMuRAn7wOplL06fIbOEtvarqbqby8WwvUVi4775/V7AF/zCCQ21 v9PIWJ1uqhhBoeO3aVVFk77CmMxS2M01rZShCjIjUCpsT/MiNCkJQNzDOdFYRJYQ iEJRXrA+qSJrfwPucQaeBjaXErQfuLASbCs+3l/EMtSrYerof4vD9vMjgbR4P4cm avJj9dpXmbiGWOtwz+Va9MGrvpNP4cYRoDbzDUSAWu4VceTQPHuloWq3xg9H94HF stzwYdRxonwj1sVgtsVkdoI/ljdoaDL+h0vr4HUZKnsdM2+nfJk+VQWsoiKUwR1B 4xWr0zSKlCWLFLSCqRMw4ZTTx0WIqrWNmMPmcQaezMOdl7jJaG7mt9KyOkx6Nut2 HuaReIeUbifP2o2X7Sz/52n3zp8+jmEJW2n/vdoa1R9OCjDxT/4c1rxd8mjU/IRs zZ9FcGgw4pQ8fqQGjY4ZAnLDlUmAvjuxq7qPMSrAmvpE7ho5wMyK/o9lP7S+C3Ny bGWdDqNPPU0VMGzGQlfBytjZdVzvn8QlZTLdvuPLQHUPpOaVKf3+TEV69KquJFcO 4BZEHh11onr8SC64D/xWMonmXbtPuYpYKkh6zG+6gAzxo5JenLWUHkHiiKFtqRVg wg/5IuEilrU/gIwpJuNU =ExCY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/43dcf593-04c8-d211-8c52-5e821ee23f7c%40nowlas.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
