On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:08:52 -0400, Joseph Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:46:08 -0400, Rick DeNatale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So do you use a working directory under /home? You don't check stuff > > out into /etc... or do you? > > > > > > CVS operates with the concept of a repository. You could have your > repository on /home and then use /etc as your working copy.
Yes, I know that. But, CVS is really suited for version control for the source code in software development projects. It's not clear to me how to map the configuration files which make up part of the /etc tree, and in some cases are scattered around in other places with the CVS concept of modules, and how CVS seems to me to want to control the total contents of the working directory. It's one thing if the working directory is a programmer's workspace, and another if it represents the configuration of the running system. I did a google search on cvs system administration, and it seems that there are folks who are using cvs with other tools, but I haven't found any simple examples. There's also an issue in that CVS only maintains file contents, and not systemy attributes like permissions, owners, groups and links. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm not sure how to do it without screwing things up. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
