Re: svn as change management toos?

Langjahr, Uwe wrote:
> I want use subversion (svn) to maintain host configuration files
> (e.g. /etc/hosts) under a perspective of change management to
> track the changes in this files.

This question gets discussed every so often on different lists.
Personally I don't prefer to use subversion for direct management of
/etc although others probably do. I would use something like radmin
or cfengine for this task. (Actually I use custom scripts but they
are not in any shape for sharing.)

Here are some interesting references for further reading.

  http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/04/15/cfengine.html
  http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/05/13/distributed_cfengine.html
  http://radmind.org/

If you want further discussion on this topic then I suggest that the
infrastructures mailing list would be a better forum than the
subversion list. It is not really a subversion topic. Check out the
archives of the infrastructure list. Good stuff there.

  http://mailman.terraluna.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructures

Bob

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Received on Wed Sep 21 17:57:01 2005