[csw-maintainers] versioning /etc

[rupert THURNER]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 19:45, Ben Walton<bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Phil and Peter,
>
> I wondered what both you think about supporting a tool like
> etckeeper[1] from pkg-get and pkgutil.  With the recent discussion
> about defaulting to /etc/opt/csw for our stuff, I'm considering
> packaging it up.
>
> The tools would need to grow the idea of pre- and post- install hooks,
> so that etckeeper could be driven to snapshot /etc before and after
> packages are manipulated with the high-level tools.  These hooks may
> be useful for other things too...it seems that apt, yum and co support
> a generic hook mechanism for things like this to plug in to.
>
> I've been dabbling etckeeper a bit on a few systems and I like aspects
> of it, although I'm still not ready to do a wholesale rollout.
>
> Thoughts?

this does not mean that the default /opt/csw/etc goes away, isn't it?
because we enjoyed a lot that one mountpoint is sufficient to run csw.

rupert.