Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:14:06 -0400 From: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I maintain config files as a CVS branch w/o messing up mergemaster etc.? Message-ID: <20040430011406.GA55912@kirk.dlee.org> In-Reply-To: <20040429233415.GA18937@grummit.biaix.org> References: <20040429215917.GZ55912@kirk.dlee.org> <20040429233415.GA18937@grummit.biaix.org>
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:34:15AM +0200, Joan Picanyol wrote: > * Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> [20040429 23:59]: > > Comments and ideas welcome. Please Cc me if that's ok. > /usr/ports/sysutils/etcmerge > > I don't use it (yet), but have thought about it. Please report back > (even privately) on usage if it works for you. Might try that...a good start on what I want I think. I'd want to manage /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe another place or two with this, which I think is supported via multiple runs and carefully-constructed command lines. Only one thing still missing in my book: No change history as in CVS, which would let me repeal an errant update pretty painlessly. I know most users might not want a CVS repository hanging around, but I'd like it, both for the backup and for semi-automated logging (cvs log) of admin changes to an entire system. Come to think of it, a CVS-based system might be adaptable to managing a whole bunch of similar systems via branching and semi- or fully-automatic merging among them. I haven't thought long enough about that to say more though. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh {American Author}
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