Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org



Quoting Bruce Smith <br...@ar...>:

>> > Another advantage of doing this is the size of the config file saved to
>> > the floppy/usb would be a LOT smaller!
>> Disadvantage of that exists also. Our boot logic based on the config file
>> searching and parsing config files. If it was union/au fs based  
>> solution I'm not
>> sure we will able to keep the logic unchanged.
>
> Right, we would have to change the boot process to mount /etc from CDROM
> and then mount the unionfs on top of that and untar the changes there.
>
> We'd also have to change save-config to only save the unionfs.  There
> would also have to be changes to the "upgrade to a new release" logic.
>
> This may also make 1.2 and 1.4 not compatible with each other's config.
> So, I guess this is a good time to do it, if we're going to.
>
> I guess it comes down to asking Heiko if this is the direction we want
> to go?  I think it's a nice solution to be managing changes in /etc and
> making the saved config much smaller.  Much better than tar'ring up some
> of the large, rarely used, packages in /etc and putting them on the CD
> (as we talked about doing some time ago).
>
> If Heiko okay's this change, I'll volunteer to do the work.  Heiko?? :-)

Yes lets give this a shot.
The size of the /etc.tar.bz2 keeps bothering me and this would really  
be a help.
Then we can also get rid of all the stupid symlinks in /etc.

Heiko

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