Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Dec 10 22:07:55 UTC 2015


On Dec 10, 2015, at 1:22 PM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
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> Because there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'd basically like to preserve the existing configuration. That includes ports and the build options. Has anyone come up with a neat procedure for doing this?

Certainly: take a backup.

(If you knew your backups were working, you wouldn't worry about this sort of problem again.)

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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