Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Configuration file versioning

[James Blackwell]

>> I am looking for a program for configuration file versioning ("/etc").
>> Has Arch the capability to store file owners and access permissions?
>> I tried Subversion but after a checkout my shadow file was world
>> readable.  Is it the same with Arch?
>

> Arch stores permissions, but I don't *think* it does ownership.  The
> problem is that, with multiple people checking out a file, who should
> own the file?=

Excellent detail that I forgot to mention. You're correct that arch
doesn't reproduce ownership. (In fact, it couldn't unless its suid, and
that's a conversation that arch is nowhere near to having)


> Also, on most Unix-like systems, chown is a privileged operation, so if you
> check out a repo as a non-root user, you can't change the ownership to
> someone else anyway.
>
> For all of that, it wouldn't be too tricky to write a wrapper which, on
> commit and checkout / update, stored and retrieved/applied ownership
> settings.  That would work equally well with SVN as with Arch, but pretend I
> didn't say that.  <grin>
>
> - Matt
>
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