Re: [Evolution] directories to save for update

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:40 +0200, Joep Blom wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:19 +0200, Joep Blom wrote:
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> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> > > > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 09:23 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote:
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> > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:50 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
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> > > > > > hi joep,
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> > > > > > Am Samstag, den 22.04.2006, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Joep Blom:
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> > > > > Does this work moving from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? 
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> > > > Yes. I just did this a couple of weeks ago from a Pentium IV to an
> > > > Athlon 64 with no problems. In fact I backed up my entire home directory
> > > > and restored it, but it amounts to the same thing.
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> > > > poc
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> > > Patrick,
> > > I am curious why you did it. I only saved the directories I made and the 
> > > evolution and gnome directories. The other .xxx directories must be 
> > > rebuild for the 64-bit applications and will anyway be rebuild when you 
> > > install them(overwriting then existing ones).
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> > I don't know what you mean by .xxx directories. In any case, I was
> > moving everything to a new machine, so I backed up my home dir on the
> > old one and restored it on the new one. What so you find strange about
> > that?
> >
> > poc
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> >  
> I mean directories like:
> .adobe; .aspell.en.prepl;.audacity;.bash_history, etc ,etc.
> They normally are build again when you install the related programs and 
> moreover they are often different when you change platform.
> Joep

a) I don't want to bother remembering which to back up and which not,
and it doesn't do any harm so I do them all. I prefer a little
inefficiency in a once-every-few-years operation to the risk of making a
mistake.

b) In at least one case (.bash_history) I'm fairly sure you're wrong.
It's a text file, so why should it matter what machine architecture I
have?

c) In no case I know of does reinstalling a package cause the user's
local data to be lost. There may of course be exceptions, but the
general practice is to leave user-preference data alone except possibly
for automatically converting to a new format when versions change.

poc