Re: [gentoo-soc] Configuration managment system

[Caleb Cushing]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@×××××××.li> wrote:
> What I basically said is "the problem is that unrelated files live in
> the same branch, the solution obviously is to use separate branches".
> While one might disagree that this actually is a problem the
> conclusion can't really get much more obvious - it might even qualify
> as a tautology :-)

I think of my configs as related by host. the master branch contains
my default configs, each other branch contains a different host,
because each host is likely to be only slightly different from the
master, and I'm likely to want to propagate master changes to each
host.

if I'm a web host, how different (asside from domain specific
settings) how different do you think one web server will be from
another? not much I'll bet.

don't think of this in terms of desktop only. think of people who need
to spread configurations across lots of systems, how can you make
there lives easier too.
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>> A they should have their own repo,
>> B, they should be in the same branch.
>
> They should be in different repositories but in the same branch? That
> ain't gonna work :-) What do you mean by this?

these are mutually exclusive. you are confusing yourself by thinking
both are possible at the same time.

> (I think you are saying that each package should have it's own
> repository. Some things you said however seam to contradict this.)
>
>> their relation is relative as they are all configs for a system.
>
> True. But not all config files are related. Setting up a screensaver
> is totally unrelated to your firewall.
>
see above comments. plus I don't think this system should store my
.file settings... which is where the screensaver is likely configured.

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