From: Bengt Gorden <bengan@sunet.se>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Cc: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:02:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E197E62.3000808@sunet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 841y3qloyq.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
> But even in the cfengine case, it would be useful to stash the
> original versions of config files somewhere such that a diff between
> A and C could be requested.
>
> What do people think?
I maintain a RCS-repository for all the changed files in /etc. It works
well for me. I don't think (althogh I'm not familiar with the internals
of etc-update) that it should be that big a problem to script rcs to
just check in the new file. If it breaks its no problem reverting the
file. And you have the benefit of being able to make diffs between A and
C, as mentioned before.
/Bengan
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-06 1:41 [gentoo-dev] etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-01-06 2:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Brian Jackson
2003-01-06 5:24 ` Viktor Lakics
2003-01-06 6:03 ` Brian Jackson
2003-01-06 10:49 ` Jeremy Wohl
2003-01-06 6:40 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-06 7:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-06 10:26 ` Toby Dickenson
2003-01-06 13:15 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2003-01-06 13:02 ` Bengt Gorden [this message]
2003-01-10 11:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-10 15:25 ` Brian Hall
2003-01-10 15:33 ` Oliver Rutherfurd
2003-01-06 15:20 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-06 7:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Vermeulen
[not found] ` <200301060054.29991.absinthe@pobox.com>
2003-01-10 22:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kai Großjohann
2003-01-10 23:05 ` William Kenworthy
2003-01-11 1:48 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-11 10:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-11 15:19 ` [gentoo-dev] Diff alternatives for etc-update (WAS: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?) Dylan Carlson
[not found] ` <84hecfmmpb.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2003-01-11 21:29 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff alternatives for etc-update Dylan Carlson
2003-01-11 21:44 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-11 23:59 ` Dylan Carlson
2003-01-13 22:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Diff alternatives for etc-update (WAS: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?) Peter Ruskin
2003-01-13 22:50 ` Dylan Carlson
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