Re: patch + defect - hdup 1.6.19

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:43:28 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[On 15 Oct, @01:43, Matthew wrote in "[hdup-dev] patch + defect - hd ..."]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> (a) the hdup tar.gz contains a file "hdup-1.6.19" which is an archive of the 
> same release, this needs to be deleted.

whoops, thanks that should indeed be moved out of it.

> (b) I enclose a patch allows a [host] statement to inherit from another [host] 
> statement, making it possible to have configuration of the following form:
> 
> [host-root]
> dir = /root/.cpan/Bundle
> 
> [host-users]
> dir = /home/usera, /home/userb, /home/userc
> 
> [host-source]
> dir = /usr/src/contrib
> 
> [host]
> inherit = host-root, host-users, host-source
> 
> Very handy tool! 

thanks, and thanks for you patch (have not looked at it yet). But was is
exactly the purpose? The final [host] now has:
dir = /root/.cpan/Bundle, home/usera, /home/userb, /home/userc, /usr/src/contrib

And this can also be done with the other options that are available?

grtz Miek