Subversion of config files - was:[Linux Job]

[Brian Kelsay]

Like a rollback mechanism?  Last known good?  Or just a place to store the old versions.  RedHat recently introduced a rollback mechanism/repository for RPM.  you have to install the RPM with the proper switches and have the repository ready.  I read about it in Linux Journal.

Brian Kelsay

>>> Gerald Combs <> 03/24/05 08:31AM >>>
Brian Kelsay wrote:
> Get with Cymor and interrogate him about what Debian does exactly.   When I do an upgrade, if a package has a config file and the author has added new default features, the apt/dpkg system compares it to your config file to see if you have customized it yet.  I've been told the best thing to do is to say no to an update of the config file to preserve your changes.  I have chosen on one box to look at the changes, but got a bit lost.  I assume that once you are familiar w/ a given pkg, you could change this stuff on the fly to get new features.

Gentoo does this too, in its own annoying way.  What I want is something
that will automatically detect when I make a change to a given file in
/etc, and check that change into SVN.  That way I can see all the
changes that have been made to a configuration file, and revert back to a
specific revision if needed.