Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:40:37 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable Message-ID: <20040923184037.GE25699@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56421822718.20040923103059@takeda.tk> References: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> <200409201753.38308.so14k@so14k.com> <414F9C6D.9020709@corp.grupos.com.br> <20040921041017.GA963@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <127205680265.20040920222835@takeda.tk> <20040921154116.GB36705@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <12247499375.20040921100534@takeda.tk> <20040923155419.GB53845@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <56421822718.20040923103059@takeda.tk>
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--EgVrEAR5UttbsTXg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Dariusz Kulinski wrote: > Hello Bruce, >=20 > Thursday, September 23, 2004, 8:54:19 AM, you wrote: >=20 > >> What about directories that I definitively shouldn't restore, for > >> example: > >> /usr/include /usr/lib most likely /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /stand > >> and so on, maybe that could help me better. >=20 > > Here's the deal. For any of the systems I maintain, I wouldn't > > restore any of these from backups after a source upgrade because in > > general, those directories contain *only* files installed from the > > base system. But how can I tell how *you* have *your* system set up? >=20 > Well, I'm avoiding to change anything in system files, and all > additional stuff I'm actually putting in /usr/local. >=20 > I'm interested about directories that are changed by system/system > programs - I belive most confusing is /var in theory there shouldn't > be anything important there (well except logs), but I already noticed > there is mail, crontab jobs, informations what ports were installed > even mysql port install database there.=20 By design /var contains things that change frequently during system operation, not things that are unimportant. Thing in /var/run and /var/tmp are required to be things you can lose, but many of the rest of the directories are of crucial importance. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --EgVrEAR5UttbsTXg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBUxikXY6L6fI4GtQRAsnkAJ9yea+tYenc36Z5gIQ8X6OO95mLmQCfX2ff DaVHmKY0YTBHmUB2ET7Z30U= =aKMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EgVrEAR5UttbsTXg--
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