[gentoo-user] CVS for kernel config?

[gentoo-user] CVS for kernel config?

[Anthony E. Caudel]

I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a lot 
of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.

I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably 
Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous 
configuration.  It seems that if I just kept the .config file in cvs and 
checked it in and out as needed that this might work.

Maybe?

Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] CVS for kernel config?

[Nick Rout]

It seems overkill for one file.


On Tue, 30 May 2006 16:17:58 -0500
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:

> I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a lot 
> of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably 
> Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous 
> configuration.  It seems that if I just kept the .config file in cvs and 
> checked it in and out as needed that this might work.
> 
> Maybe?
> 
> Tony
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> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>     -- Benjamin Franklin
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Re: [gentoo-user] CVS for kernel config?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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Tuesday 30 May 2006 23:17 skrev Anthony E. Caudel:
> I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably
> Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous
> configuration.  It seems that if I just kept the .config file in cvs and
> checked it in and out as needed that this might work.
>
> Maybe?

Of course you can. The documentation [1] for subversion is excellent. It 
really does tell you everything you need to do this. Of course you need to 
emerge subversion first... ;)

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

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[gentoo-user] Re: CVS for kernel config?

[Christer Ekholm]

"Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com> writes:

> I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a
> lot of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably
> Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous
> configuration.  It seems that if I just kept the .config file in cvs
> and checked it in and out as needed that this might work.

I suggest good old RCS.  Its small, simple, and easy to work with.

just emerge app-text/rcs then:

$ co -l .config
$ vi .config
$ ci -u .config

The revisions is kept as delta in a single file .config,v optionally
in a subdirecdory RCS if that exists, you can even have RCS be a
symlink to som other location if you like.

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