Package: etckeeper Version: 0.63 Severity: normal The etckeeper package may be installed without git, as long as another supported VCS (currently bazaar, darcs, mercurial) is or gets installed.
However, when git is not installed, etckeeper will not initialise the repo after installation. Instead one sees the output: "etckeeper init not ran as git is not installed" This is because, at present, the postinst script sources the config file /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf, checks whether $VCS is installed and only runs init and the initial commit if it is. At this point, though, right after installation, etckeeper.conf is still just the default config file from the package, which sets "VCS=git", no matter what's installed on the system. The package would have to figure out which VCS to use, which should be easy if there's only one, and set $VCS accordingly in etckeeper.conf before using it. Maybe this could be solved with debconf, but I'm not familiar enough with that to supply a patch. Might look into it, though. Perhaps, one could even avoid bothering the user with any questions in case there's more than one VCS installed, by hardcoding a preference list. As pointed out in Debian Bug #611882 it is easy enough to uninit, manually reconfigure and init again. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 Architecture: armhf (armv6l) Kernel: Linux 3.12.20+ (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii git 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1+rpi2 ii mercurial 2.2.2-3 Versions of packages etckeeper recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-124 Versions of packages etckeeper suggests: ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
