Anybody have a solution for dotfiles outside /home
on gentoo for example I have accrued a few files under /etc/portage that to my knowledge just have to live there...
right now I basically rely on my backups for this. but maybe somebody knows a clever way to handle this?
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palordrolap
in reply to gkpy • • •Seems like an odd software choice to create actual dotfiles under /etc. Often files there have much the same name as a user's dotfiles but without the dot. Thinking of things like /etc/profile vs ~/.profile and so on.
Without knowing precisely why those decisions were taken (good reason? ignorance? insanity?) it's not clear what steps to take.
Vaguely leaning towards symlinking or hardlinking but precisely what to do and which way around is still unclear.
Are those dotfiles have your user permissions or are they owned by a system account like root?
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alternateved
in reply to palordrolap • • •$HOMEwould be a better place.palordrolap
in reply to alternateved • • •Then they shouldn't have dots on them (bad design decision) and should be backed up by the system backup/restore mechanism, whatever that might be, not the user's own homedir backup, which is what I assume OP is talking about.
If they're talking about a full system backup including home directories, that's a moot point because I'd expect they'd be included anyway, dot or not.
alternateved
in reply to gkpy • • •stow --target /etcflag if you use stow for managing dotfiles.like this
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JubilantJaguar
in reply to Eager Eagle • • •--etc--hostsand so on. Avoids creating a giant tree of mostly empty directories. Wish distros came with a default out-of-the-box solution for all this.Eager Eagle
in reply to JubilantJaguar • • •$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEwould be nice though.JubilantJaguar likes this.
eshep
in reply to gkpy • •I assume by "dotfiles" you simply mean "config files" as there should be nothing in your
/etc/portagedirectory that's hidden. For all configs I want to backup, I just keep a copy of them elsewhere. As for portage stuff, I just copy mymake.conf, and everything in eachrepos.confandpackage.*directories.If you want to simplify a complex solution to an already simple thing, take a look at bare git worktrees.
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nyan
in reply to eshep • • •/var/lib/portage/world, which isn't even in /etc.eshep likes this.
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in reply to nyan • •worldif nothing else. How the hell'd I forget that!. I usually symlink it to /etc but then forget I did when updating backups. Worst case, I wind up with a slightly old world file if I need no rebuild.Linux reshared this.
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in reply to gkpy • • •configure · master · Christian Velin / dotfiles · GitLab
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in reply to gkpy • • •/etcfiles with version control systems. I can't say much about it since I've never used it, though.etckeeper
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in reply to aurtzy • • •GitHub - CyberShadow/aconfmgr: A configuration manager for Arch Linux
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