I like etckeeper. It does store the etc/ directory in a git repository.
This way I have a nice history of what changed.
Of course we have backups, but this is convenient.
I would like to store additional data like the output of
hwinfo --all.The tool etckeeper seems to have a plugin “framework” via “.d” directories.
But I could not get it working.
How to store the output of hwinfo in a way, that etckeeper adds it to the git repo?
Answer
What about creating pre-commit hook for this:
You will create for example file /etc/etckeeper/pre-commit.d/40hwinfo with this code in it:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
hwinfo --all > /etc/hwinfo.txt
git add /etc/hwinfo.txt
then run:
$ chmod +x /etc/etckeeper/pre-commit.d/40hwinfo
and commit changes:
etckeeper commit
This will take little bit longer (because of time needed to complete the hwinfo command), but then you will see, you have your hwinfo output inside /etc/hwinfo.txt file and it will be tracked by git as well.
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Source : Link , Question Author : guettli , Answer Author : patok
