BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities

2016-05-17 05:29:52
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues for future backuppc activities
From: Juergen Harms <juergen.harms AT unige DOT ch>
To: <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:29:21 +0200
On 05/16/2016 08:37 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote:
> As FreeBSD sysutils/backuppc port maintainer I can say one of the first thing 
> that should be done is to split up configure.pl in two parts: installation 
> script and configuration/update script.
> It's practically impossible to create pre-built package with monolithic 
> configure.pl script, and I didn't find a way to do that. Finally I managed to 
> solve that problem applying awful patch to configure.pl that removed 
> installation part from it.

I agree that this is a very important issue. Can you also take the 
aspect on board to facilitate the users work when he adapts his 
customization to a new release? I have always found it extremely painful 
to wade through more than 2000 lines of config.pl to find the 3 lines 
that need to be considered for updating.

Juergen

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