summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/system/etckeeper/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
author David Sullins2013-12-30 10:41:09 +0100
committer Erik Hanson2014-01-07 18:13:06 +0100
commit614b0fd1c425ad5ce6cc6030b4a5d549f4235b62 (patch)
tree73129c5bb9548c3174363113605f43cbc0895969 /system/etckeeper/README
parent0270819986f43965323d9ebe46bf9e15ae9cfc33 (diff)
downloadslackbuilds-614b0fd1c425ad5ce6cc6030b4a5d549f4235b62.tar.gz
system/etckeeper: Added (version control for /etc).
Signed-off-by: Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/etckeeper/README')
-rw-r--r--system/etckeeper/README13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/etckeeper/README b/system/etckeeper/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c41e73f6d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/etckeeper/README
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git,
+mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. 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 will use git by default although you can change that in
+/etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf, assuming you have other version control
+tools installed. After installing etckeeper the first time you will
+need to run "etckeeper init" once to initialize the repository.
+
+bzr and darcs are optional dependencies.