On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 21:53 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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. ---- I truly count on packages to install 'rpmsave' conf files from the new installations rather than replacing the in place conf files so perhaps I am stupid but I fail to understand the benefits of the logic above (not puppet but etckeeper). Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
