From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 7 17: 5:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0366637B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA25643; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:02:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAApZa42X; Wed Mar 7 18:01:55 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA06149; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:04:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103080104.SAA06149@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:04:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), res03db2@gte.net (Robert Clark), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), rjesup@wgate.com, mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Mar 07, 2001 11:28:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> Some config files do track successive changes to a small degree. Or at > >> least show something about what added a section to the file. (rc.conf) > > > > IMO, yes, it would be significantly more valuable. > > I'm confused. Why not just integrate something like CVS into all > configuration files? Adding metadata in the file itself _is_ how CVS works. The checked out "view" of the file is only part of the file, in the CVS repository. If an API provided interpretation of the metadata, then the program using it would only "see" a particular "view". An alternate approach would be to put versioning in the FS, and use it to control which version the system uses. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message