Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Gour
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:43:58 +0100 Dennis Börm allsp...@planetcyborg.de wrote: we're using http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ for that purpose I see it's available via AUR, but, afaik, it does not support Arch's pacman due to lack of hook support in Pacman. Can you share some light

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
I wrote a system backup program called mime that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called lsmime which is used to list, restore and view

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Squall Lionheart wrote: I wrote a system backup program called mime that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called lsmime

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
Squall, very nice work going to give this a shot later today on a test box. Thanks for pointing this out. I tried a few things in suggestions to my OP but this seems to be the best so far. Thanks for bringing this back up Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/20/12 at 09:28am, Squall Lionheart wrote: Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next version since it's a huge improvement over the current one with a lot of very powerful and user friendly features, as well as efficiency improvements. It'd be nice if you

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
It'd be nice if you added it to the AUR. M After I roll out this update, that's on my list of stuff to figure out :). I have never created an AUR package, doesn't sound to difficult. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present.

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/22/2012 11:48 PM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Hello Don, Excerpts from Don deJuan's message of Thu Feb 23 07:35:52 +0100 2012: What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 08:48 +0100, Alfredo Palhares a écrit : Hello Don, You create a bare repo: $ mkdir etc.git $ git init --bare Now lets congigure it to chek the files elsewhere: $ git config core.worktree /etc And export these vars to you current session $ export

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 02/23/2012 12:48 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Hello Don, Excerpts from Don deJuan's message of Thu Feb 23 07:35:52 +0100 2012: What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only permissions that git stores is the executable bit. -- Regards, Alfredo Palhares

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only permissions that git stores

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Dennis Börm
On 02/23/2012 05:36 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What about those ? Git doesn't care about

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Excerpts from Taylor Hedberg's message of Thu Feb 23 17:36:00 +0100 2012: But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the fact that /etc/shadow should only be readable by root, for instance. I

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/23/2012 08:56 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Excerpts from Taylor Hedberg's message of Thu Feb 23 17:36:00 +0100 2012: But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the fact that /etc/shadow should

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/23/2012 08:43 AM, Dennis Börm wrote: On 02/23/2012 05:36 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What

[arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-22 Thread Don deJuan
What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at the minimum. I have seen the package etckeeper and it does not seem to really fully be setup to work with pacman. Both AUR

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-22 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Hello Don, Excerpts from Don deJuan's message of Thu Feb 23 07:35:52 +0100 2012: What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at the minimum. I too keep my /etc directory