[Mageia-discuss] An idea for later

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org
Wed Mar 2 18:42:41 CET 2011


To save (some) hassle, when doing a full intall (not an update) on an existing 
install, what if the install program were to find and save, if they exist, a 
number of config files and directories and reuse them ?
I am thinking specially of
/etc/host*
/etc/cron*
the user (499<UID ) portion of /etc/passwd and /etc/group
and some directories like 
/etc/bluetooth
/etc/cups
/etc/cron.*
/etc/ssh
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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