I R A Darth Aggie  wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:41:58 +0000 (UTC),
> bob prohaska , in
>  wrote:
>>  Thanks to the advice I got from "stretch vs jessie" thread I decided to
>>  do a clean install on a new (larger) microSD card. That leaves the old
>>  filesystem unmolested and usable as a backup.
>>
>>  Are there any tools akin to Apple's Migration Assistant to automate,
>>  or at least assist,  the process of configuring the new system to
>>  replace the old one? IIRC some things, like setting up the printer,
>>  were fairly tedious.
>
> Well, you can probably replace the new system's /etc/cups directory
> with the old one, which contains your printer setup. I would just oopy
> /etc to somewhere, then judiciously replace things as needed. You'll
> need to insure that you have the relevant printer drivers available,
> if they aren't included by default.
>

That's the sort of manual configuration I was hoping to avoid, but maybe
there's no choice. Replacing directories isn't too bad, but knowing which
directories to replace and files to edit is likely to provoke some hair
pulling.



> Lately, local configurations are put in files that end with .local
> so that is some help. At least for some packages. rkhunter does this
> as "rkhunter.conf.local".
>

To my surprise, I looked in /usr/local/etc and found it empty. Thank you
for the warning!

bob prohaska

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