Yep, I installed etckeeper when 9.04 first came out. It does exactly what I had planned on doing, but has the hooks so that it is all automatic with apt-get
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Brian Friday <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for the hints Peter, I will try that out. > > Looks like your already testing etckeeper :) good to hear about that too. > > Pretty much what your doing is exactly what I need to do we are stuck > in cshrc land due to vendor tools though... I remember a time when I > loved (t)cshrc but that was a long time ago when I was young... > > - Brian > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Peter Manis<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not doing it for multiple hosts but I source a number of various > files > > for each of my dot files. Each file I source is for a specific part of > each > > dotfile so I can easily append to it without screwing anything up. Those > > sourced files are then kept in version control. It is helpful when you > have > > a few hundred lines in your dotfiles. As for history I am appending as > soon > > as the command is run so that I do not lose history in multiple sessions, > > and I have it in bashrc so that it will also work properly with screen, > if > > you put the history settings in .bash_profile history will be overwritten > > when you exit screen > > As for etckeeper the directory is root 700 so they are not anymore > > unprotected than any other file in /etc > > 1114905 drwx------ 8 root root 4096 2009-07-06 07:39 .git > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
