Hi, On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:15:22PM -0500, micah anderson wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:22 -0500, Mathias Gug <math...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > this functionality exists in puppet already with the > clientbucket/filebucket (and I might even suggest is better because you > can ship things offsite)... but I guess some people might want to use > etckeeper for this purpose. I admit, it is an interesting idea. >
Agreed. Another advantage of using etckeeper is the integration with apt (which is the model used to implement etckeeper support in puppet). > I cannot think of a scenario where someone might have etckeeper > installed, but not want this to happen after every puppet run, but do > you have any idea what happens if etckeeper is installed, but 'etckeeper > init' has not been run? > etckeeper init is run by etckeeper postinst script on fresh install. > What about a Suggests: etckeeper in debian/control? I didn't see that in > the patch, or any information in a README that indicates that someone > could use etckeeper with the package. The missing documentation makes me > feel like this is too much of a hidden feature, a simple one or two > lines in the README.Debian would suffice IMHO. > Agreed. Suggests would definitely be a good choice. I've even considered a Recommends as keeping etc/ under version control is a very good sysadmin practice. -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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