At $WORK, we tend to use a private git repository, and a custom script. We clone the directory to anywhere we like, commit our changes, then push it to github. Then a custom script, pulls all the stuff down and a puppet run puts the files in their appropriate place.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Graham Dunn <g...@kurai.org> wrote: > Etckeeper > > *From: *Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > *Sent: *Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:29 AM > *To: *tech@lists.lopsa.org > *Reply To: *Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > *Subject: *[lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files > > I recently thought it would be a good idea to version control the /etc > directory. Using subversion, I added and committed ... and all hell broke > loose. > > > > It seems, for some god unforsaken reason, during a commit, svn will copy > (or link?) the file being committed, read the temp copy, and then move that > file back into place, clobbering the original file. This is so obscure, > I've never noticed it before - but it has the net effect of clobbering > whatever file permissions happened to be there before. Naturally, in the > /etc directory, that destroys the world. The first thing after commit, > sudo wouldn't work anymore (permissions should be 444, are 644, abort) > which effectively meant the machine got bricked. (It's an amazon machine, > so by default you can't become root; you must rely on sudo). Fortunately I > had just created a snapshot, so it was easy to revert... But still. This > behavior caught me *very* much by surprise. > > > > Question is: What do you use to version control permission sensitive > files? Subversion doesn't give a damn about permissions, so even after I > clean up this mess, I think I should probably avoid it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Regards, Ali Sajid Imami President, Irrtiqa
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