revision control of /etc

Helper_Monkey · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 141

The biggest (or maybe it's my only) worry that i deal with in gentoo is that durring an update (or at some other time) i will over write a config file and lose important data. I'm thinking about implementing cvs for my /etc, I was wondering if any one has done this, or has any other suggestions for protecting the config files.
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Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:04 pm Post subject:

portage already protects /etc through its CONFIG_PROTECT system, if its going to do any change to a configuration file, it will prompt you at the end of the merge to run etc-update and you can merge only the parts of the new configuration files that you want or tell it to totally ignore the updates.