From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZwoi-0004V2-0d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:49:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9HLlW33015985; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:47:32 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9HLhpeP003492 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:43:51 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so46348ugc for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:43:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EgD8/9RmZNr/CwPtKALl9wcouL6zEEgyDPzhDMmztKbCvjDYBT6/bN/S+7R55nO0D6iegVByrTCHL5USsRQ6MpUIfCenPNAc6N55TJnTJkK+NoRDPD8TgQgcFOCZ4X/BFvalGsuZkaHU8QsTazoOlStMENibLND12MjzCVI8vgk= Received: by 10.67.91.6 with SMTP id t6mr10627478ugl; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.16 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:43:44 -0700 From: "David Grant" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update vs dispatch-conf In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061013165641.44606.qmail@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: bc45ea29-22c8-4c2c-bfcc-d09e6e479e6f X-Archives-Hash: 5bcce4653b07abd8d5179c6f2eca4a6d On 10/13/06, Remy Blank wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > > What does the group think? > > I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc > in a Subversion working copy. This allows quickly seeing any changes > made on updates and emerges, reverting changes if anything breaks, and > keeping track of the reasons for specific changes in commit log messages. > > I also use a tool to store file and directory ownership and ACLs in an > SVN property. I believe dispatch-conf doesn't track ownership and > permissions. > > I even thought about using a distributed VCS like git to be able to push > changes to a group of machines for e.g. updates, but then again, I don't > have enough installations to maintain. Has anybody done something in > this direction? Great idea to use SVN. RCS on it's own is a pain to deal with. -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list