Today i managed to break something in my distro, which my linux and google skills being not able to fix it, and i was wondering if I was about time to make a complete reinstall.. with the thought of reinstlling i thought to myself that i should need to back-up wine! now firstly I need to ask if its possible to compress ./wine/ and replace it after i've reinstalled wine in a new clean system? is there anything that i need to pay special care of? and secondly wouldnt be great if wine had a nice automated way of being compressed itself, or being able to create itself a nice backup .deb from its files? think of it as automated back up system where you could burn it to a dvd, and then re-install it including your applications? seems pretty easy enough? what do you say? Wouldn't be easy enough to make a script for it?
stimpak wrote:> now firstly I need to ask if its possible to compress ./wine/ and replace it after i've reinstalled wine in a new clean system?Yes. stimpak wrote:> is there anything that i need to pay special care of?No if you use normal *NIX tools (tar, gzip, bzip, etc) that can archive / extract directories, files, symlinks. The only thing you forgetting are desktop & menu links. You'll need ~/.config/menus and ~/.local dirs as well. The Wine relevant parts that is. stimpak wrote:> and secondly wouldnt be great if wine had a nice automated way of being compressed itselfNo, there are already lots of tools for that. No need to invent another wheel.