Saving configuration files (was Re: FreeBSD Upgrade: Ports That Need Rebuilding)

[Mel Flynn]

On Thursday 16 April 2009 21:18:01 Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:59:30PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I guess I'm just anti-redoing-configuration, since there's so many
> > formats out there. One can of course backup ${LOCALBASE}/etc --exclude
> > rc.d, but the number of exceptions grows over time (/etc/X11/xorg.conf,
> > /usr/local/squid/*, /usr/local/pgsql/data/*, /usr/local/hybserv/*).
>
> I keep all configuration files that I have changed myself in a tree
> under ~/setup, complete with two scripts that check (check.pl) if config
> files have changed or installs them (install.pl) if they are out of
> date. Both scripts read a file with a list of what to install
> where. This directory is kept under revision control with git. I've
> documented this setup on my homepage:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#doc

Very interesting. Maybe I should wrap sudoedit with autocommits, cause I know 
I'd forget to.
-- 
Mel