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

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:58:25PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org" <maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but for files outside of /home/user/ (like
> /etc/apt/sources.list), you have to also modify osso-backup so that it
> will actually overwrite that file on restore.

I've noticed that settings.zip contains a bunch of files in
Root/etc/osso-af-init/, alongside files in Root/home/user/.  Is that
handled specially then?

> > 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?).
> 
> It does since version 4.27.  I am still not totally happy about
> backing it up, since that file is to some extend specific to the OS
> release you are running.  In the future, we might need to get smarter
> about it.

The Ubuntu update-manager goes and replaces the distro field in
/etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. dapper -> edgy) for all the official
repositories.  I suppose the restore tool in OS2007 could do the same.

Marius Gedminas
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