Marc Ferland wrote:

> I've been using LFS to create a specialized linux distribution at
> work. Everything is going as planned except that keeping track of all
> changes going into the distribution is nearly impossible.

Yes, the real work of a distribution for multiple systems is keeping 
changes synchronized by something like tar.gz, .rpm, .deb, etc.

> I often make changes to configuration files, I add new libraries,
> remove unneeded stuff, etc.
> 
> I tought of maybe using SVN, but it doesn't really support the
> metadata associated with each file (only support the eXecutable flag
> if I remember correctly).
> 
> So I'm currently using a combination of tar and rsync to keep an history
> of all versions. It works but I have to do a lot of things
> manually and I can't really diff between versions etc.
> 
> Any of you had this problem before? If so how did you solve it?

I have used svn for some configuration files. What metadata do you want 
to support that isn't supported by svn?

   -- Bruce
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