Fedora EPEL 6 Update: etckeeper-0.58-1.el6
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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5137
2011-12-01 23:12:53
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Name : etckeeper
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.58
Release : 1.el6
URL : http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/
Summary : Store /etc in a SCM system (git, mercurial, bzr or darcs)
Description :
The etckeeper program is a tool to let /etc be stored in a git,
mercurial, bzr or darcs repository. It hooks into yum to automatically
commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file
metadata that version 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 version control.
The default backend is git, if want to use a another backend please
install the appropriate tool (mercurial, darcs or bzr).
To use bzr as backend, please also install the etckeeper-bzr package.
To start using the package please read /usr/share/doc/etckeeper-0.58/README
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Update Information:
Update to 0.58, a bugfix version.
From the upstream changelog:
* Changed to store all permissions of files and directories, even those with standard
permissions of 644 and 755. This is unfortunately necessary in order to support etckeeper
init on a checkout that was made with a nonstandard umask, in which case the files that
were expected to be 644 and 755, won't be. Closes: http://bugs.debian.org/649701
Thanks to Дмитрий Матросов for reporting the bug and developing a fixup script (attached
to the bug) which could be used if you've already encountered this problem.
* Bugfix for filenames containing single quotes.
* Use git add -A, which automatically removes deleted files, and avoids a separate call
to git add -u. Thanks to Miklos Vajna, whose patch in 2008 was deferred because -A was
then too new, and languished in a branch until found today.
* Optimised metadata storage.
* cron.daily: Don't stop committing when a stale packagelist.pre-install file exists.
Thanks to gulikoza for noticing this bug.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update etckeeper' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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