Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET: > Hi Hendrik, > > Hendrik Boom writes: > > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision > > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a > > local branch. > Have a look at etckeeper. > > I've been using that for several years now on a variety of machines. > The log for the machine I'm writing this on goes back all the way to > its initial install on 2017-01-11 of Devuan's Jessie Official Beta2 > :-) > > You may want to keep your sensitive /etc/ files out of the repository > though, depending on your level of paranoia.
I still do not use etckeeper, cause I prefer to just add the files to the repository that I actually change. This way, whenever I like to replicate the config onto another machine or even just look at what I changed, I can just clone the repository and have exactly a tree of those files that I adapted. Of course, Ansible would be also an alternative. I am just not completely sure whether it makes sense with just a few machines. I may start to use it with hosted virtual machines as it eases moving to a different provider if need be. I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades. The history on this laptop dates back till May 2011. And I have older machines where I used it. It may be that for this laptop I just cloned the bzr branch of the older laptop, then did a diff to see which files to adapt and continued with the bzr branch of the older laptop. I still love to use brz – cause I prefer it usability wise -, but I probably will switch to git for new machines. On the other hand, it does not really matter. Thanks, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
