[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] New Nokia 770 softwareimage available

[From: Peter Robinson]

On 11/6/06, Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com <Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com> wrote:
> >> By the way, can someone confirm or deny that the backup tool
> >does not
> >> back up your /etc/apt/sources.list and therefore you will have to
> >> re-add all the application manager repositories manually?
> >
> >Confirmed. Thus it is a good idea to copy it to the MMC before
> >you do the backup/reflash/restore upgrade-procedure.
> >
> >  Armin.
>
> It is more like "the application installer does not tell the backup tool
> to backup its /etc/apt/sources.list". The backup tool is generic one,
> applications tell it what to backup and how to restore data.
>
> I have been campaining for sources.list backup/restore for quite some
> time now. AFAIK the Application Manager in Sardine still does not ask
> for sources.list to be backed-up and restored. But I might be wrong
> (Marius?).

Why not put it in bugzilla as a bug, at least that way it can be
tracked, people can vote/comment on it etc.

Peter