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Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral
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Greg A. Woods |
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Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:49:47 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Thursday, October 12, 2000 at 16:00:40 (-0700), Garth Winter Webb wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS for System Administration and Configuration Restoral
>
> I'm not sure what you want here that 'import' and 'checkout' don't
> handle. I suspect you dislike the two stop process. Remember CVS is
> built to keep track of files and data for development. It is far more
> dangerous to start adding bookkeeping files and generally altering the
> source as oppose to just grabbing a snapshot and requiring the user to
> check out the copy in a new, safe place.
Substitute "files and data" with "text files" and you'll right be on the
mark.
However I would *STRONGLY* advise against trying to use CVS to track and
manage system configurations and I would *NEVER* use it to propogate
system configurations.
The only caveat is when you're using a system configuration management
tool such as cfengine. That tool's configuration files and scripts are
good candidates for versioning with CVS.
> Yup, you've got to import. Thats how CVS works. CVS does allow you to
> define patterns to match against files you don't want imported. What
> would you say is an easy way to define what you don't want from a list of
> a files?
No, you don't have to use "cvs import" -- You can use "cvs add".
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