Bernard Li wrote: > Does anybody have a suggestion on a revision control system for > SystemImager images (chroot)? > > Does anybody even want such a feature? > > I am thinking along the lines of recording what files have been > changed when and being able to roll back to previous revisions etc. > You could keep entire backups of your entire image, but that eats up a > lot of space quickly if your image is big. > > SVN seems like an overkill, since you probably just want the revision > control bits to be local to the system (included in the image), plus > it probably cannot handle file ownership correctly (not to mention > treat special files in /dev). > > RCS may be a good way to implement this. Also some sort of > LVM/snapshot mechanism can be used. > > Any thoughts on this topic? > > Cheers, > > Bernard >
Bernard, have you seen this? http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/index.html We could implement a versioning mechanism using this tool, maybe saving incremental changes in /var/lib/systemimager/backups or similar... since it supports also remote server backups the user could choose also to push backups to an external machine to have a mirror image server, or similar stuff... Moreover the package seems to be already included in SuSE, Fedora, Debian, etc... See also this howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup Cheers, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
