Re: Configuration DB

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Cameron Hutchison writes:
> Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster.

So you mean restore, not reinstall.

> It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically
> generate config files from the debconf info (xfree86 being one).

Any package that overwrites your changes to config files and/or uses
debconf as a registry is seriously buggy.

> How can you backup your debconf answers and restore them in such a way
> that it replaces re-entering the answers?

Back up /var/cache/debconf.
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John Hasler
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