Re: [Monotone-devel] /etc under version control

[jack-monotone]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Gour D. wrote:
 
> For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but
> darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe
> to do due to lack of support for perms & symlinks...So, this is nice
> opportunity to deploy Monotone...

I've been doing this for a while.. I keep a "vendor branch" of OpenBSD /etc,
and then branch off for each host. A new version of the OS is only a propagate
away. 

Be careful of having a _MTN in root (/), as it tends to be a catchall workspace
that only root has access too. This is currently why the OpenBSD buildbots have
some failing tests.

> On #monotone I've got info to take a look at "6.1.10 Attribute
> Handling", but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the
> "/etc under mtn" project?

I would like to have native symlink, permissions, and ownership handling in
monotone. I currently just make everything owned by root, and have a "fixup"
script to change things that need changing. 

--Jack 

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Jack (John) Cummings                           http://mudshark.org/
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