I recently had the idea to store and track /etc using git. When googling
the topic I came across the "Using git to store /etc" thread from the
end of last year which provided some interesting details on what would
be necessary.
It seems the file metadata (owner, group, mode, xattrs, etc) was the big
stumbling point, so I wrote up a tool over the last few days which
allows the metadata to be stored in a separate file which can be stored
along with the rest of the data in the repo (or separately).
This is also useful for tripwire type checks and for other types of
storage which drops some of the metadata (tar comes to mind)...
The tool (metastore) is available from:
git://git.hardeman.nu/metastore.git
Not completely cleaned up yet (it lacks a real README and some Makefile
targets) but I hope it might be useful to others (it sure is to me).
Please CC me on any replies.
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David Härdeman
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