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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: making inst distributions (was: Re: ghostscript)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.023523.861@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1993Jan8.115859.7974@bitrot.in-berlin.de> <1993Jan8.150400.20212@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <1il5f4INN6pq@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:35:23 GMT
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- In article <1il5f4INN6pq@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes:
- >In article <1993Jan8.150400.20212@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson) writes:
- >|> It would be nice if administrators could add
- >|> files to the list that inst has of configuration files. This way we can
- >|> use inst to control our configurations as well as those SGI supports.
- >
- >I'm not sure I understand this.
- >
- >Are you hoping that "versions changed" would emit names of your
- >other config files that have changed (ie - have file.N or file.O
- >variants visible)? Nah - that doesn't sound right - and I'm at a
- >loss for other guesses.
-
- I'm not sure if this is what the original poster was talking about, but
- for backing up non-user files on our SGI's, I use something like:
-
- versions -cm >file.list
- versions -e /usr/people user >>file.list
-
- This gives a reasonably good list of everything that is part of the
- system configuration, if you filter out directory names. So, another
- system can be set up the same way by installing from CD and adding
- back just these files. But this still leaves out a few system files
- that I've changed but which are not known to inst as configuration
- files. These will still get clobbered when I upgrade IRIX, and I
- will have to keep track of them on my own.
-
- I noticed that /usr/lib/inst/userlist.exc is also not a configuration
- file. It might be nice if it were...
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
-