Re: Version Control for conf/rc/... files

From: Coy Hile (hile_at_cse.psu.edu)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:07:58 -0500

Richard Lefebvre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does someone has some software (or frontend to RCS) that is made for
> keeping versions conf/rc/... type of file (i.e. /etc/profile,
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, /etc/hosts, ...). Every CVS, subversion, ...
> are geared for project source code, or documents. What I'm looking
> for is a a way to keep track of all those config files that can be
> left and right in a unix setup. The thing I want to evade is create
> a CVS directory next to every one of those files. I'd like a single
> Repository (say /root/VERSIONS) with the same subtree directories
> inside or an indication of the file inside the revision files.
> I have search for something like that, but I couldn't find anything
> Is there something made for sys-admins?
>
> Richard
>

You could probably set up a CVS repository that has different modules
of sorts for different parts of the hierarchy. Personally, I just use
SCCS and have SCCS directories at various places in the hierarchy for
now. I need to read the SCCS and RCS book and figure out if there is
in fact a better way to do that. 

-- 
Coy Hile
hile@cse.psu.edu

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