Hi Martin,
Martin Steigerwald writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET:
>> Hi Hendrik,
>>
>> Hendrik Boom writes:
>> > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision
>> > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a
>> > local branch.
>> H
Hi Dimitris,
Dimitris T. via Dng writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>>
>> Have a look at etckeeper.
>
> was using it for years, but not anymore..
> too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand),
> and it never really came handy during those years...
>
> maybe storing
Martin Steigerwald - 13.12.20, 16:07:10 CET:
> Hendrik Boom - 13.12.20, 15:52:31 CET:
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades.
> >
> > I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades when
Hendrik Boom - 13.12.20, 15:52:31 CET:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades.
>
> I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades when they
> conflict with my own.
Well, dpkg warns me abou
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> I do not care about all the automatic changes by package upgrades.
I care about the automatic changes by package upgrades when they
conflict with my own.
It would also be useful to have a tool that compares a the configurat
Martin Steigerwald - 13.12.20, 09:29:26 CET:
> The history on this laptop dates back till May 2011. And I have older
> machines where I used it. It may be that for this laptop I just cloned
> the bzr branch of the older laptop, then did a diff to see which
> files to adapt and continued with the bz
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET:
> Hi Hendrik,
>
> Hendrik Boom writes:
> > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision
> > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a
> > local branch.
> Have a look at etckeeper.
>
> I've been using th
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
>
> Have a look at etckeeper.
>
was using it for years, but not anymore..
too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand),
and it never really came handy during those years...
maybe storing etckeeper repo it in a different backup disk makes mo
Hi Hendrik,
Hendrik Boom writes:
> I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision control.
> then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a local branch.
Have a look at etckeeper.
I've been using that for several years now on a variety of machines.
The log for the m
