control-dump
and
control-restore
are intended to be used by package pre-install and post-install scripts,
respectively, to dump and restore state of system facilities provided by
those packages.
This allows to keep the desired state of installed system facilities over
package or OS upgrades.
FILES
/var/run/control/*
- shell pattern of saved status files created by
control-dump,
later used and removed by
control-restore
/etc/control.d/facilities/
- installed system facilities' control scripts to be invoked by
control(8)
/etc/control.d/functions
- common shell functions used by the above scripts
HISTORY
control-dump
and
control-restore
first appeared in ALT Linux Sisyphus and Openwall GNU/*/Linux 1.0.
