etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git,
mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package
managers including yum and pacman-g2) 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, Unbuntu, Fedora, etc.
News
etckeeper 0.48 released with these changes
- Fix backwards test for HGUSER. (Mike Rich) Closes: #589242
- 'etckeeper vcs' can be used to run arbitrary VCS subcommands in the etckeeper environment. (Thanks, Stefan Tomanek)
etckeeper 0.47 released with these changes
- Set HOME=~root so that VCS like bzr do not drop root-owned files in user home directory when sudo etckeeper is run. Closes: #583581
- hg: Set HGUSER (if not already set) to avoid warning message when committing. Closes: #533298
- Both git and bzr default to showing the author of a commit, and not the committer. So, set the author to the user running sudo for both. The committer will then be root.
etckeeper 0.46 released with these changes
- Support etckeeper commit --stdin
- Fix bug where after a large upgrade, etckeeper's automatic commit message was so long it exceeded command line length limits. Closes: #581678