From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3040 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Jan 2003 13:04:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9185 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2003 13:04:47 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bengt Gorden Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:02:26 +0100 Message-ID: <3E197E62.3000808@sunet.se> References: <33052.192.168.0.8.1041817268.squirrel@webmail.codewordt.co.uk> <841y3qloyq.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: news Cc: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? X-Archives-Salt: a99c628c-5b9d-4e72-81dd-bc0f8f302581 X-Archives-Hash: 7dd9e837c703acf37cbc19303e92f530 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list