[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-31 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:25:02 + (UTC) Ludovic == Ludovic Brenta ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org wrote: Ludovic I've been doing this for several years now, without a problem Ludovic on my Debian laptop. The only trick, for me, was to ignore Ludovic some files which are symlinks to files outside

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-26 Thread Gour D.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:07:29 -0700 jack == jack-monot...@mudshark.org wrote: jack I've been doing this for a while.. I keep a vendor branch of jack OpenBSD /etc, and then branch off for each host. A new version jack of the OS is only a propagate away. In my case I'd just keep my desktop

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-26 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Gour D. g...@atmarama.net writes: Hello! For a long time I wanted to keep my /etc under version control, but darcs is one of those DVCS where it is explicitly said it is not safe to do due to lack of support for perms symlinks...So, this is nice opportunity to deploy Monotone... On

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
Gour D. wrote: On #monotone I've got info to take a look at 6.1.10 Attribute Handling, but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the /etc under mtn project? Mhh, there are hooks for attribute handling, but out of the box I fear monotone is not much more capable of versioning a

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:00:29AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: Gour D. wrote: On #monotone I've got info to take a look at 6.1.10 Attribute Handling, but would like to hear some more hints how to proceed in the /etc under mtn project? The hard part of versioning /etc is interfacing cleanly

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:00:29 +0200 Lapo == Lapo Luchini l...@lapo.it wrote: Lapo Mhh, there are hooks for attribute handling, but out of the box Lapo I fear monotone is not much more capable of versioning a Lapo whole /etc without problems (for more or less the same reason Lapo that darcs says).

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47:48 -0400 hendrik == hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: hendrik Maybe we should start logging bugs against package managers. :-) hendrik Of course if you exclusively hand-edit your /etc it's another hendrik story. I'm doing it manually, but would like to revert easily if

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:13:01 +1000 Brian == Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: Brian Have a look at etckeeper. Brian Brian http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ Thank you for reminding me about it. Brian At one time monotone was supported, although, unfortunately, I Brian don't

[Monotone-devel] Re: /etc under version control

2010-07-25 Thread Gour D.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:20:19 +1000 Brian == Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote: Brian Still, as mercurial is supported, I think this should mean it is Brian possible to support monotone too. Somebody needs to write the Brian code. I pulled the repo and see that everything is written