also sprach Pavel Avgustinov <[email protected]> [2010.03.11.1322 +0100]: > >From what I can see, the host-specific linking (i.e. prefer > >a file with suffix "__foo" on host foo).
I wonder whether this isn't something for VCS branches anyway > > Similarly, I wonder why people use symlinks instead of > > hardlinks. Sure thing, hardlinks are brittle, but if the manager > > keeps track anyway, it might just as well recreate hardlinks as > > necessary. > > I think the killer point is that you can remove a file from the > .config directory and detect dangling symlinks, while you wouldn't > be able to tell a dangling hard link apart from an untracked > config file. Oh, but there might be other dangling symlinks, so to discern those managed from those external, the tool needs to keep track in a state file anyway. > Anyway, one feature that my custom-baked scripts provide which > isn't present (I think -- happy to be corrected!) in either of the > dotfile-manager solutions is merging multiple VCS-controlled files > into one. Having a .d solution integrated is indeed nice, I use it extensively in some repos, but I currently rely on custom Makefiles, e.g. http://git.madduck.net/v/etc/ssh.git/blob/HEAD:/.ssh/Makefile The problem is of course that the actual config files then become caches, and it's happened that I forget and lose changes that way. Oh well. The true solution is either - a filesystem layer change allowing read() access to a directory (you would lose the ability to filter files like run-parts) - a layer which uses e.g. xattrs to define those filters - a way to tie a program call to a file, so that if the file is read, the program is run instead (The Hurd can do that) - adding includedir or similar directives to all the applications. I think the latter is going well, but it'll take a while still. For SSH, I've requested the feature for authorized_keys.d nearly two years ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481251 and similar other requests exist. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. -- douglas adams, "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" spamtraps: [email protected]
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