For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and I'm golden.
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config files that I currently do manually, for example, the `/etc/apt/*` configs I need to make the above work. For a single set of files, manual isn't bad, but as I want to get into setting up LDAP, autofs, and so on, it is time to explore solutions. I only have four systems at the moment (two physical and two virtual), so I don't think I need something too fancy. My first thought was to simply add a `Files:` section to *.control files I use for my metapackages. After all, for configs going into *.d directories, they are usually easy to just drop in and remove, no editing in place required. But, that is when I discovered that all files under `/etc` are treated specially. I've found a lot of documentation out there, but, of course, much of it is out of date. https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages , for example, seems to recommend slightly old to really old tools. Tools like `ansible`, `puppet` and so on seem, at first blush, aimed at larger installations than mine. But maybe other's experience with them will show they scale down fine? Anyway, suggestions based upon actually experience would be appreciated. Cheers, mrc
