On 2002-11-11 11:57, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc
> > files where there too :-)
>
> One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I suppose
> that he backed that up).
Well, if you are really one of the devoted believers of the
alt.religion.cvs group, that's not really *very* hard to do.
Keeping files directly under CVS control can get tricky, especially
when permissions are involved. But... you can always roll your own
branch of /usr/src/etc in a local CVS repository, and use the merging
capabilities of CVS to keep the files in sync with the current FreeBSD
source. If you are interested in -STABLE which rarely changes, you'll
find that it's not really hard to keep your local branch in sync with
the FreeBSD source.
Then you can check out a copy of the local branch in /tmp/etc and use
a good old tool, that we all know about, mergemaster(1):
# mergemaster -m /tmp/etc
The trick here is that you can use the nice, working Makefiles of
FreeBSD and mergemaster, to update your /etc from a local branch,
which accidentally happens to include all the proper changes for
your local setup :-)
Giorgos.
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