Putting /etc under source control

Question

I would like to put my /etc directory iunder source control using bazaar.

Are there any gotchas in doing this. It seems safer to do it user an ordinary user rather than root - might there a be a problem with .bzr belonging to such a user.

Answer 1

You should look at using etckeeper, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

Answer 2

Could be overkill for a single system (unless you need to 'rebuild' it from time to time) but the usual solution for configuration management is to use some scm like cfEngine, Puppet, bcfg2 , or the like, and then put their data under source control.

Answer 3

Here's a way using SVN and cron to manage /etc. I suppose it could be adapted.