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?
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?
Not a great solution, but my custom set of functions that synchronize the (dot)files just copy them over into a directory preserving their paths within it e.g. cp /etc/hosts ~/.sysbackups/$(hostname)/etc/hosts
My script rewrites the paths to
--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.right, for system files I do the minimal approach only select a handful that I wish to keep, so the tree is easy to search into. A system equivalent to
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEwould be nice though.