Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Daniel Stone [Tue, Jun 24 2003, 07:51:13PM]:

> * 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)

Just some random thoughts: I think it would make sence to look for new
cruft in / (files), /boot, /var, /usr. Some packages create file copies
or links there naturally without telling dpkg about the changes.  In
addition, some files stored in /var may be installed by the package but
have different contents (debsums may help to detect them).

Further, what is you plan for replaying the packages on restore? Using
dpkg or extracting package contents and copying the rest from the backup
volume? I would prefer the second way; and if some packages is not
available in exactly the same version, it would be marked as
"not-installed, to install" in dpkg's database.

Whatever you are doing there, the idea is great. I have had plans to
write a such backup helper but never started to implement it.

MfG,
Eduard.
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<Alfie> Von sid wirds nie ein netinst geben.
<hygl> Alfie: darf ich dich damit zitieren, wenn sid stable ist?