On Friday 23 April 2010 2:50:15 am Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of > Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take > > care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only explicitly added files > > are tracked. > > I do pretty much the same thing (except mine has .bzr/ and .bzrignore > ;). Using the VCS to handle updates requires something a bit broader > though. I HAVE considered it. You'd need to do the sort of 'make > install' stuff mergemaster does to a tempdir, and make a branch there > checking in the snapshots, and have your etc be a derived branch from > that. That way you have all the VCS merge capabilities to do the > merges and track where they came from. > > Mergemaster works well enough that I've given no serious thought > beyond idle "that would be cool" thinking on the matter though 8-}
etcupdate essentially seeks to do a simplified version of the vendor imports by just keeping the last two imports around so that each new import can be applied. This does mean it is more limited than a full source code control solution, but it also ends up being more lightweight. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
