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justintime
Asked: 2010-08-31 01:31:44 +0800 CST

Putting /etc under source control

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I would like to put my /etc directory iunder source control using bazaar.

Are there any gotchas in doing this. It seems safer to do it user an ordinary user rather than root - might there a be a problem with .bzr belonging to such a user.

linux ubuntu etc bazaar

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  1. Best Answer

    You should look at using etckeeper, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

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  2. Could be overkill for a single system (unless you need to 'rebuild' it from time to time) but the usual solution for configuration management is to use some scm like cfEngine, Puppet, bcfg2 , or the like, and then put their data under source control.

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  3. Here's a way using SVN and cron to manage /etc. I suppose it could be adapted.

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