Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:55:10AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
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A possible simple extension which would allow the user to choose between
manual or automatic installation+initialization:
Provide an optional package, for example "etckeeper-git-init", which depends
on etckeeper+git and only contains /etc/postinstall/etckeeper-git-init.sh
which triggers new initialization code in
/etc/postinstall/zp_zzz_etckeeper-postinstall.sh via some file in
/var/cache/etckeeper. This code performs 'etckeeper init && etckeeper
commit' if and only if VCS=git is selected and /etc/.git does not exist.
Honestly, I suspect it's not worth the effort of doing things like that.
As you say, 99.8% of users who might be interested in using etckeeper
are going to be people who already have a good idea what they're doing
and will be able to work it out for themselves.
Thinking about it some more, I'm also mildly concerned about the small
but non-trivial proportion of users who blithely install every package
available on Cygwin, which I don't think is going to be an issue for
more-or-less any other *nix distribution. I don't normally think it's
worth doing much to actively catering for those users -- I'm generally
of the opinion that they're making their own misery -- but in this case
automatically starting etckeeper would be a potentially significant
impact, and for the sake of both their lives and yours, I suspect it's
best to just leave etckeeper as something that requires manual
initiation.
Good point.
That said, if you're keen to set up that optional package, I definitely
don't think it's a bad idea; "it wouldn't be worth the effort to me"
doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!
I now decided to leave this for later (or never). The package is new
and if there are still issues during initialization, the messages should
be visible on console.
