Fwd: Re: [LBo] Permanent /home partition

[Stefan Waidele jun.]

Jisao wrote:
> [...]
> So, taking the case of KDE (or, if need be, insert here your favorite 
> desktop name, and pretend you're a klutz are configuration files), how 
> do you change the whole .setupfile to a newer version, keeping the 
> tweaks you made.  Some make "beautifying" tweaks, but others change the 
> behaviour of some "stuff" to suit their need (I heard of customized menus).
> 
> Anyway, I was looking for the "lazy" way, as I often don't remember "how 
> did I pull that stunt again"?

Well, I don't think the perfect lazy way does not exist. AFAICT, you 
need to choose your poison:

   * Let the distro overwrite your "dotfiles" and use all the new 
bells'n'whistles.
   * Restore the old dotfiles from backup after the upgrade. You can 
still use the new festures, but they might not be configured properly.

Alternatively, you could
   * run "diff" on your configuration _right after you have configured 
it_ thus keep track of your changes
   * keep notes in a nice and friendly wiki giving a quick summary "how 
you pulled that stunt" along with links to the tutorials you used. If 
you need to "repull the stunt", just search LBo for your own info. (This 
is why I put so many things on the wiki. Or as Linus put it: "Real men 
don't do backups. They upload their files to a ftp-server and have 
others mirror them"

;)

Stefan


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