tags 436448 + wontfix thanks Hi
As this is an universal problem I suggest that you discuss this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and try to convince people to get this into the packaging policy. I must say that I suggest you to change your way of working (there are several ways to solve your problem) instead of changing everything else! What are you going to do about the following files in etc? passwd, hosts, group, fstab, mtab, modules, crontab, protocols, hostname, nsswitch.conf ... and more? What I say is that this is a quite dramatic change in the design. And if Debian changes this, lot of people will be very confused. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but that this change is very big. Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:48:27PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > * Fri 2007-08-10 Ola Lundqvist <ola AT opalsys.net> INBOX > > Hi > > > > Do I understand you that you want /etc version managed in > > one repository and /etc/debarchiver in an other repository? > > Something like that. Now: > > Package A /etc/A.conf > Package B /etc/B.conf > > With CVS I need to version whole /etc in order to track packages A and > B. What I'd like to be able is to do this: > > Package A /etc/A/A.conf > Package B /etc/B/B.conf > > So that I can separately version A and B packages e.g. attaching > accompnying README files, backup files etc. And retrieving the > configuration to ohther hosts separately (shared common files). > > This problem is actually universal for all /etc packages that put > files directly at top dir. For me. these I would find most useful > to have their own subdirectories > > debarchiver.conf > hdparm.conf > logrotate.conf > ntp.conf > resolv.conf > rsyncd.conf > smartd.conf > vnc.conf > > Overall the general clean solution is to reserve own directory > for every package (just like in usr/lib, usr/cache ...). It's > just old legacy that /etc is the way it is now. > > Thanks, > Jari > > -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://opalsys.net/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
