Dear debian-users,
I have been playing around first with RCS and then CVS for /etc. I am
interested in comments on some things I have observed, and maybe some
answers to some of my questions:
1. RCS is easy to setup up and work out of the box for /etc. The only
limitations I could find are
a. you need one RCS directory for each /etc subdirectory.
b. if you link all RCS directories to one main RCS directory,
then you can't have two files with the same name under
/etc.
c. It does not work with any automated changes done by dpkg
for instance.
2. CVS is more difficult to setup and does not work out of the box for
/etc.
a. you have to first import the whole /etc tree to cvs
b. symbolic links will be ignored.
c. automated changes will be dealt with
Some questions:
-After I have imported /etc, do I need to delete my current /etc tree and
then checkout the /etc module from CVS into /etc in order to get CVS
working for /etc?
-In the documentation I read that it is possible to get CVS working with
symbolic links. Does anybody have some pointers/information on how to
do this?
Any other comments/suggestions?
TIA
xio
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