I happily use git for local repositories to track configs in /etc or for example, /root/bin or /usr/local/bin (scripts ..)
There is also etckeeper, yes, useful as well. But I would like to have some kind of meta-repo for all the gentoo-servers I am responsible for ... some remote repo to pull from. Most files in /etc might be rather identical so it would make sense to only track the individual changes (saves space and bandwidth) Maybe it would be possible to use git-branches for each server? Does anyone of you already use something like that? What would be a proper and clever way to do that? Yes, I know, there is puppet and stuff ... but as far as I see this is overkill for my needs. I'd like to maintain some good and basic /etc, maybe plus /var/lib/portage/world and /root/.alias (etc etc ..) to be able to deploy a good and nice standardized gentoo server. Then adjust config at the customer (network, fstab, ...) and commit this to a central repo (on my main server at my office or so). Yes, rsyncing that stuff also works in a way ... but ... versioning is better. How do you guys manage this? Looking forward to your good ideas ;-) Regards, Stefan
