On 2016-05-10 02:32, Glen Barber wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: >> On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those having >>> recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by default. >> >> After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" has >> become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-) >> > > No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem > specific solutions. Similar topic came up a few days ago following > lunch. It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thing > does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons. > > It should be fairly trivial to automatically backup /etc (and related) > when 'distribution' is run, either intentionally or accidentally (or by > commit mistakes, such as this). > > Glen >
I wonder if you couldn't actually package it. Before installing the new /etc, it would create a package of what is in your old /etc and put it somewhere safe, so an upgrade could be reverted by manually installing that package. -- Allan Jude _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
