[csw-maintainers] versioning /etc

[Ben Walton]

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?

Thanks
-Ben

[1] http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/

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