Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Joey Hess wrote: Thierry Carrez wrote: How often do you think admins need to edit the added file set for security/clutter reasons ? I don't know, but I also doubt that it's common for anyone to need access to the state of /etc at the instant etckeeper was installed, rather than slightly

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Thierry Carrez wrote: You're right. The user ignoring everything will get the first step committed as part of the next apt preinstall hook or the daily autocommit. So we don't really make it easier for him. I'll revert that change in Ubuntu so that both distributions behave the same from a

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Joey Hess wrote: Thierry Carrez wrote: You're right. The user ignoring everything will get the first step committed as part of the next apt preinstall hook or the daily autocommit. So we don't really make it easier for him. I'll revert that change in Ubuntu so that both distributions behave

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Joey Hess wrote: Thierry Carrez wrote: etckeeper currently runs etckeeper init in postinst, as a fix for bug 505772. However this bug suggested to run both init and commit at install-time, in order to have a working setup just after the install command. This makes sense especially as the

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Thierry Carrez wrote: How often do you think admins need to edit the added file set for security/clutter reasons ? I don't know, but I also doubt that it's common for anyone to need access to the state of /etc at the instant etckeeper was installed, rather than slightly later when something

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Thierry Carrez wrote: etckeeper currently runs etckeeper init in postinst, as a fix for bug 505772. However this bug suggested to run both init and commit at install-time, in order to have a working setup just after the install command. This makes sense especially as the nifty etckeeper

Bug#533290: Do etckeeper commit at install time

Package: etckeeper Severity: wishlist Version: 0.37 Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch karmic etckeeper currently runs etckeeper init in postinst, as a fix for bug 505772. However this bug suggested to run both init and commit at install-time, in