On 2012-07-23 07:23:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > so that if you want to make things more consistent, you should > > get rid of /etc/default entirely. > > /etc/default is used for a lot more than just enabling/disabling services, > and it will not go away.
But with /etc/default, you can override options. For instance, for sshd, the port can be provided either in /etc/ssh/sshd_config or in /etc/default/ssh. > Now, if you just mean removing enable/disable switches for initscripts from > /etc/default/*, that should be doable with some effort. And that's what > this subthread is about. No, I just mean that configuration of some service should be in a limited number of places. But if you agree that it's fine for /etc/default to override config setup somewhere else, then there should not be any problem with ENABLE/DISABLE. > > to my own working copy. Now I could do that. Then Subversion won't > > detect by itself files that have been added or removed. I need to tell > > it explicitly, which is annoying, as this isn't done automatically. > > But the main problem is the history. If there's only one file, I can > > do, e.g. "svn log the_file". But if files (symlinks) are added or > > removed, I can no longer get the log. Or I need to do that on the > > Use the right tool for the job. SVN is crap for this particular use case, > and any difficulties involving the use of svn to track /etc are irrelevant > because it simply cannot be expected to work properly anyway. Switch to > etckeeper + git or something else that can version-control symlinks, owner > and mode changes in an useful way (git itself is not enough, thus the use of > etckeeper on top of git). etckeeper is not the right tool because it will store private data (e.g. passwords and private keys). I want to track only public data and only files for which I have done a local modification. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120723132629.gc9...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr
