[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#571127: Bug#571127: etckeeper integration with puppet pre/post commit hooks

[Mathias Gug]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:15:22PM -0500, micah anderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:22 -0500, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> this functionality exists in puppet already with the
> clientbucket/filebucket (and I might even suggest is better because you
> can ship things offsite)... but I guess some people might want to use
> etckeeper for this purpose. I admit, it is an interesting idea.
>

Agreed. Another advantage of using etckeeper is the integration with apt (which
is the model used to implement etckeeper support in puppet).
 
> I cannot think of a scenario where someone might have etckeeper
> installed, but not want this to happen after every puppet run, but do
> you have any idea what happens if etckeeper is installed, but 'etckeeper
> init' has not been run?
> 

etckeeper init is run by etckeeper postinst script on fresh install.

> What about a Suggests: etckeeper in debian/control? I didn't see that in
> the patch, or any information in a README that indicates that someone
> could use etckeeper with the package. The missing documentation makes me
> feel like this is too much of a hidden feature, a simple one or two
> lines in the README.Debian would suffice IMHO.
> 

Agreed. Suggests would definitely be a good choice. I've even considered a
Recommends as keeping etc/ under version control is a very good sysadmin
practice.

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com
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