Re: Version control for /etc

On 2005-03-22 16:57-0500, Grzegorz Dostatni wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup a svn repository for /etc for a number of servers.
> Has anyone tried doing that?
>
> I am currently having problem with the intial checkout. I can import /etc
> tree into the repository, but subversion will not allow me to overwrite
> files on checkout. For a good reason :-)

This will help, if you did an initial import with your etc:
<http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-03/2120.shtml>

Other options is that you do an in-place import:
<http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import>

And please remember, that subversion stores pristine copies in .svn
directories: take care of permissions of those files, so that ie. your
shadow won't show up from "/etc/.svn/text-base/shadow.svn-base"

Also svn won't store permissions, so record them or use eg. asvn:
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/asvn>

BR, Jani

-- 
Jani Averbach
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