Re: Can I maintain config files as a CVS branch w/o messing up mergemaster etc.?

From: Doug Lee (dgl_at_dlee.org)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:14:06 -0400
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:34:15AM +0200, Joan Picanyol wrote:
    > * Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> [20040429 23:59]:
    > > Comments and ideas welcome. Please Cc me if that's ok.
    > /usr/ports/sysutils/etcmerge
    >
    > I don't use it (yet), but have thought about it. Please report back
    > (even privately) on usage if it works for you.

    Might try that...a good start on what I want I think. I'd want to
    manage /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe another place or two with
    this, which I think is supported via multiple runs and
    carefully-constructed command lines. Only one thing still missing
    in my book: No change history as in CVS, which would let me repeal
    an errant update pretty painlessly. I know most users might not want
    a CVS repository hanging around, but I'd like it, both for the backup
    and for semi-automated logging (cvs log) of admin changes to an entire
    system.

    Come to think of it, a CVS-based system might be adaptable to managing
    a whole bunch of similar systems via branching and semi- or
    fully-automatic merging among them. I haven't thought long enough
    about that to say more though. 

    -- 
Doug Lee           dgl@dlee.org        http://www.dlee.org
Bartimaeus Group   doug@bartsite.com   http://www.bartsite.com
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
        - Anne Morrow Lindbergh {American Author}
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