Hi Martin, Martin Steigerwald writes:
> 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. Actually, I have been *thinking* about using vcsh to track those parts of /etc/ that I tinker with myself and that are amenable to sharing between (subsets of) my machines. I've been using vcsh to selectively manage the dot-files I care about and a small collection of snippets and scripts and that works quite well, for me at least. Still need to roll up my sleeves and see if I can get something like that to work for /etc/ or even / (so I can track /usr/local/ bits too). > 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. That's you ;-) I do care, so I use etckeeper. Hendrik asked about stuffing /etc/ in git, so I suggested etckeeper. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
