[csw-maintainers] Migrating config files from /opt/csw/etc to /etc/opt/csw during package update

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Mon Nov 2 15:13:10 CET 2009


Hi Maciej,

Am 02.11.2009 um 15:05 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> In addition to migrating single files is there the possibility to  
>> migrate
>> complete directories? Like
>>  /opt/csw/var/postgresql/  to  /var/opt/csw/posgresql/ ?
>
> Yes, it is possible.  For copying directories, tar is being used, to
> preserve the whole tree structure that's being copied.  Files and
> directories can be specified the same way; you don't have to say which
> one is a file and which one is a directory.

Excellent! Unfortunately now I no longer have an excuse for not  
relocating ;-)
I guess I'll make a try with fontconfig first which is waiting in  
testing with
the old layout scheme.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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