Carlos & David, et al -- ...and then Carlos E. R. said... % % El 2018-01-02 a las 06:52 -0500, David T-G escribió: % % >I'm running Leap 42.3 % > % > davidtg@wench:~> egrep 'VERSION|NAME' /etc/S?SE* /etc/os-* % > /etc/SUSE-brand:VERSION = 42.1 % > /etc/SuSE-release:VERSION = 42.3 ... % > % >(although the OS appears to be confused about itself a bit :-) % % Same thing here. % In my case, package is "branding-openSUSE-42.1-8.4.noarch". Weird. I wonder why... I happened to load my Leap from the Linux Mag DVD, FWIW. % % >and have % >some questions as I move in. One biggie is where best to put localized % >configs -- hosts file, profile, language setting, etcetc -- so that they % >will not only survive an upgrade but be easy to keep and transfer into a % >fresh install again one day. % % In /etc/ % Some files have something.local file, so use it if it exist or you % see in the main file that it is imported (and then create it if it % does not exist). I eventually decided to move /usr/local out to my data partition and just sync /etc (and anything else that I find later) there regularly. To wit: davidtg@wench:~> ls -goh /usr/local /mnt/data/OS/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Jan 8 22:44 /usr/local -> /mnt/data/OS/local /mnt/data/OS/: total 16K drwxr-xr-x 2 88 Jan 8 22:55 00-rsync-logs -rwxr-xr-x 1 171 Jan 8 22:54 00-rsync.sh drwxr-xr-x 127 8.0K Jan 8 09:45 etc drwxr-xr-x 11 264 Dec 15 08:26 local -rw-r--r-- 1 570 Jan 8 09:47 OS-notes.txt I'll create profile.local or profile.d/*.sh and so on, but I don't think I'm going to get around lots of programs each wanting to write to their own places; that's too much hassle. I think that I'm safe in moving the entire /usr/local tree because software should, if anything, only play with the files rather than the entire directory structure; we'll see how that goes in the long term. And, hey, at least it's done and I can move on to the next question :-) I also keep, as you can see, notes of what packages I've installed or other particular tweaking so that I can replicate it on the next system. Maybe one day I'll come up with (or learn of) a better approach. % % Language settings. There is a global or default config that you do % in yast, and there is another one per user, in file {HOME}/.i18n [snip] Hey, thanks! I'll go and play. I love multi-byte char support and all, but I can't stand screwing up the sort order with case insensitivity and dot files & dirs in the middle :-) I also just set something like C.UTF-8 on a global basis, so the .i18n bugs shouldn't be a problem here. Thanks again for the input & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org