I’m interested in installing etckeeper with Mercurial in my Ubuntu system. My reason is that I don’t know how to use Git and don’t want to learn at the moment. If I check the package description it sounds promising: kent@rat:~$ apt-cache search etckeeper etckeeper – store /etc in git, mercurial, or bzr I’m wondering how … Read more
I want to make a central config file repository so that I can have the changes to any config under revision control (Mercurial). This will include some GNU/Linux boxes (which will use etckeeper), the network equipment’s config files, printer’s config files and last but not least, windows configs. I know you can import some configurations … Read more
I would like to make clean commits with etckeeper. Here is what happens: 1) Check the status of the repository : git status On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean 2) Modify a configuration file : vi myfile.conf 3) Add it to the index git add myfile.conf 4) Make a commit git commit … Read more
I want to keep track of the /etc changes with etckeeper Unfortunately, the commit messages are the same for all commits saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to emerge run I wish there would be something more descriptive like apt-get install foo on debian based systems or emerge foo on gentoo based systems when reading … Read more
