"Mark D. Baushke" wrote: > > > Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > right now I am using cvs just for my programming > > part and I am curious for what else I could need > > it on my linux. Do you have any suggestions? I > > read that some even put there whole > > '/etc'-directory under cvs. Can you recommend > > this? > > No, I am not able to recommend using cvs to > control /etc directly. > > The files in /etc would be better handled by a > Configuration Management system rather than a > source control system. That is, something that > understands what process signals or other changes > in the running state of the machine are needed to > be implemented when one or more files in /etc are > changed in some manner. > > -- Mark A more full answer would be, to control /etc you ether need a Configuration Management system that understands what the things in /etc mean, or you need a build system ([like makefiles] that you may keep in cvs with the source files for building etc) that understands /etc _well enough_ to take source configuration files and build your /etc.
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