etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git,
mercurial, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package
managers) to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package
upgrades. It tracks file metadata that revison control systems do not
normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions
of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while also being
simple to use if you understand the basics of working with revision
control.
etckeeper is available in git at git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper, or
in gitweb. It's packaged in Debian;
packages for other distributions are forthcoming.
News
etckeeper 0.21 released with these changes
- Swedish debconf translation from Martin Ågren. Closes: #492063
- Make etckeeper init -d set up commit hooks that call etckeeper -d. (Note that if you've relied on it setting up such commit hooks for a repo outside of /etc already, it created broken ones that need to be fixed to use -d.) Thanks, Wolfgang Karall.
etckeeper 0.20 released with these changes
- [ Jelmer Vernooij ]
- Use new Bazaar API.
- Pass --quiet to bzr add to avoid new files from being printed twice.
- Don't consider warnings from bzr plugins when checking if tree was modified.
etckeeper 0.19 released with these changes
- Patch from Miklos Vajna to fix one more git- command that crept in.