Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name : debbackup
> > Version : 0.1
> > Upstream Author : Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
> > * URL : http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debbackup/
> > (not functional yet)
> > * License : GPL
> > Description : Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)
> >
> > debbackup is a supplemental, Debian-specific, backup program. It backs
> > up only what is needed to restore from a fresh install, with data
> > recovered - package information (including holds/etc), conffile changes,
> > Debconf information, and more. debrestore will restore this information
> > - installing/updating required packages, restoring configuration files,
> > and more.
>
> Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for
> modifying other packages conffiles.
That's very silly. Would you file an RC bug against restore(1) for
modifying other packages' conffiles?
The conffile editing restriction is there to stop other packages'
postinsts from messing about with conffiles, not to stop anybody from
ever writing any program which touches a conffile.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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