Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:00:13 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: system files and version control Message-ID: <20001103150012.M32036@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <14849.62966.135429.2396@guru.mired.org>; from "Mike Meyer" on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:17:10PM -0600 References: <127732836@toto.iv> <14849.62966.135429.2396@guru.mired.org>
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* Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> [20001103 02:19]: =>Archit P Shah <ashah@MIT.EDU> types: =>> 1) Are there good reasons to not put system files (/etc/passwd, /etc/group,...) =>> under version control? It seems like it would be useful to be able to see the =>> changes over time. (Not as a security measure, but as a way of doing sanity =>> checks). => =>I certainly hope not - I keep a lot of them under version control! =>/etc/password wasn't one of them, because it tends to be edited by =>tools, not users. But lots of others (/etc/*.conf, /etc/fstab, kernel =>config files, qmail control files, and so on) are there, and it makes =>a *lot* of sense to do that. Sorry guys but i am abit lost on this version control issue. Where do i get more info? Thanks => =>> 2) If there are no good reasons to avoid putting system files user version =>> control, does it make sense to build that into the distribution? (as an =>> option) => =>It already is, and not as an option. RCS is part of the base system, =>though it doesn't look like much work is being done to maintain it =>(the GNU version is used pretty much as is). There are a number of =>tools for working with (and installing) cvs in ports/net and =>ports/devel. I use Perforce instead of CVS, and that can be installed =>from the ports as well. => => <mike => => =>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org =>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. -William Cowper To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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