Re: recommendations for version controlling /etc on a new f12 box?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> technically, etckeeper seems to be little more than a (by default)
> wrapper around git.  i could just as easily finish the install, "cd
> /etc" and run "git init" to create the initial repo there, then "git
> add" to add it all and make that the first commit, then just commit
> after each significant change.  etckeeper looks to just be a pretty
> front-end to the underlying git.
>
> unless i'm misreading it badly.

I believe the advantage etckeeper provides is that it integrates with
yum (and apt, and other packages managers) to automatically import
changes to git.  That way you don't have to manually check in every
change made when you update software and it installs a new config
file.

This sounds somewhat handy.  It's a decent step between not managing
things at all and using a full configuration management tool like
puppet I suppose.

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