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On 26-09-2004 13:11, Patrick Willam wrote: | Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
| *All* config files for the system reside _physically_ in /etc; | this is debian policy (or isn't it?).
Yes.
But beware that Skolelinux currently contains material not following Debian Policy - like LTSP that you mention yourself.
| (If a program expect the conf-file in some other dir, then the | file is in /etc an a symlink to /etc is at the expected place.)
Ahem - config files and conffiles are not exactly the same. Here's the relevant part of Debian Policy:
| 10.7.1. Definitions | ------------------- | | configuration file | A file that affects the operation of a program, or provides site- | or host-specific information, or otherwise customizes the | behavior of a program. Typically, configuration files are | intended to be modified by the system administrator (if needed or | desired) to conform to local policy or to provide more useful | site-specific behavior. | | `conffile' | A file listed in a package's `conffiles' file, and is treated | specially by `dpkg' (see Section 6.6, `Details of | configuration'). | | The distinction between these two is important; they are not | interchangeable concepts. Almost all `conffile's are configuration | files, but many configuration files are not `conffiles'.
| So you can make a tar just from /etc without special options [e.g. for | symlinks] and have all the system config in one tarball.
All configuration files, yes. But not all configuration:
Not all of the configuration is within configuration files. Some of it (like what packages are installed on the system, and answers to debconf questions - some of which are not stored in configuration files) is stored below /var.
| I think one just needs a mechanism to watch files for changes | (e.g. "fam" does that) and initiate a cvs commit when that happens. | And some tool which gets the conf-file information (see above) from | the package management system and makes up a configuration for "fam" | out of it.
Have a look at the package changetrack (which fires off emails of diffs whenever a file is changed) as a skeleton for this. Or maybe the package can even be used as is, but tweaked to do other stuff than send emails.
~ - Jonas
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