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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 02/21/2021 05:08 PM
Add etckeeper
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| 3 | h2. Etckeeper |
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| 5 | Etckeeper seemed a good start to at least be able to track the virtual machine configuration in git and be able to re-deploy it easily. |
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| 7 | However it seems to have some limitations (tested with Trisquel 8): |
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| 9 | * It expects sysadmins to only use etckeeper for a single directory like /etc/ or maybe /boot for special cases. It doesn't seem well suited for keeping @/@ under git. While some automatic commits can be disabled[1], it will for instance scan the whole directory and populate .etckeeper with many mkdirs. While this is highly desirable for @/etc/@, because without that some daemons might fail to start, it is clearly not desirable for @/@. The consequence is that any configuration outside of /etc/ will not be tracked by etckeeper. This behavior is governed by the code in @/etc/etckeeper/pre-commit.d/30store-metadata@ which doesn't contain any way to disable that behavior, and that still needs to run somehow as otherwise some of the permissions will probably not be correct. |
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| 11 | fn1. It tend to do things automatically, but with @AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=1@ and @AVOID_COMMIT_BEFORE_INSTALL=1@ in @/etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf@, and doing @chmod -x /etc/etckeeper/init.d/70vcs-add@, it won't git add all the files under the directory it manages at boot and will not do automatic commit each days. |