On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > > sys-apps/etckeeper is what you want. Works great. It even has portage > > integration. Though I'd recommend going with the ~arch version instead > > of stable for that portion. > > > > -- > > Doug Goldstein > > I think this is something dispatch-conf does too. I use that but still > make a backup myself, just in case. Generally, a successful reboot is a > good sign that the configs are working. > > Going to look into this but the home page doesn't really show me much, yet. > > > You'll want USE=cron enabled so that you get the benefits of etckeeper taking a note of someone or something changing a config and not committing it. Additionally without USE=cron, when you emerge the next package etckeeper will think that the most recent package you emerged changed a file that it didn't if you manually changed a file.
Once that's done just do: # etckeeper init -d /etc # bzcat /usr/share/doc/etckeeper-1.7/examples/bashrc.bz2 >> /etc/portage/bashrc And you're set. -- Doug Goldstein
