Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-14 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Martin, Martin Steigerwald writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET: >> Hi Hendrik, >> >> Hendrik Boom writes: >> > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision >> > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a >> > local branch. >>

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-14 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Dimitris, Dimitris T. via Dng writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> >> Have a look at etckeeper. > > was using it for years, but not anymore.. > too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand), > and it never really came handy during those years... > > maybe storing

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 13.12.20, 16:07:10 CET: > Hendrik Boom - 13.12.20, 15:52:31 CET: > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades. > > > > I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hendrik Boom - 13.12.20, 15:52:31 CET: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades. > > I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades when they > conflict with my own. Well, dpkg warns me

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades. I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades when they conflict with my own. It would also be useful to have a tool that compares a the

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 13.12.20, 09:29:26 CET: > The history on this laptop dates back till May 2011. And I have older > machines where I used it. It may be that for this laptop I just cloned > the bzr branch of the older laptop, then did a diff to see which > files to adapt and continued with the

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET: > Hi Hendrik, > > Hendrik Boom writes: > > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision > > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a > > local branch. > Have a look at etckeeper. > > I've been using

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-13 Thread Dimitris T. via Dng
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > > Have a look at etckeeper. > was using it for years, but not anymore.. too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand), and it never really came handy during those years... maybe storing etckeeper repo it in a different backup disk makes

[DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Hendrik, Hendrik Boom writes: > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision control. > then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a local branch. Have a look at etckeeper. I've been using that for several years now on a variety of machines. The log for the