Helmut Lichtenberg wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
>   
>> Helmut Lichtenberg escribió:
>>     
>>> Although slightly going OT, can someone point me to an arcticle or HOWTO
>>> about putting /etc under version control and how to set up the repository
>>> for a whole bunch of servers?
>>>       
>> Well, here is it. Very simple :)
>> http://www.enricozini.org/2005/tips/etc-under-svk.html
>>     
>
> yes, sounds quite simple. Thanks.
>
> But now we are coming back into ltsp setup.
> Currently we have 5 application servers for thin clients. They are more or
> less identical. The installed and configured packages are the same but they
> differ in terms of hardware (network cards, RAID controllers, etc.). This
> mainly concerns /etc. I guess, about 98% of files in /etc are identical and
> it would be nice to put them into one repository/depot. The remaining 2% need
> per host handling.
>
> Can I separate files within one directory (/etc) into different instances of a
> version control? Example:
>
>   Repository for each host:
>      /etc/hostname
>      /etc/network/interfaces
>
>   Repository for all ltsp-servers:
>      /etc/ldap/ldap.conf
>      /etc/nsswitch.conf
>      /etc/ltsp-localdev.conf
>
> This would make it easy to hold everything in sync and monitor changes.
>
> Helmut
>
>   
In Subversion at least, you can use Branchs for the differences, and 
"mixed revisions" in your /etc directories that get most files from 
Trunk and that 2% from Branch

Noel Torres
er Envite

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