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, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
News
etckeeper 1.3 released with these changes
- Fix type -p bashism that crept in via recent patches. Closes: #707319
etckeeper 0.64 released with these changes
- Added support for openSUSE's zypper package manager. Thanks, Catalin Iacob
- Add Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation. Closes: #685771 Thanks, Adriano Rafael Gomes
etckeeper 0.63 released with these changes
- bzr: Improve detection of unclean repos, to work when there are shelved changes.
- uninit: Now preserves parts of the gitignore and similar files that are outside the managed by etckeeper block. Closes: #673996 Thanks, David De La Harpe Golden (Squared Financial)