Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:14:36 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Matthew G. Marsh" <> | Subject | Re: [offtopic] BitKeeper & distributions, please read |
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:
> We've been discussing licensing terms for bitkeeper and there is some hope > that following the ghostscript model would be acceptable. I'd like to get it > resolved to people's satisfaction because there is something else I'd like to > do with BitKeeper. > > Suppose I could get the RedHat and SUSE (and Caldera too) to do the following: > > - ship their editors with BitSCCS linked in (editors includes stuff like > linuxconf for purposes of this discussion) > - make all the system config files revision controlled (behind your back > so you didn't see any difference) > - have a mode where all files added to a directory were revision controlled > (/var/lib/majodomo/lists for example). > > Given the way that BitKeeper works, you could now ship around "patches" > which describe a particular configuration, like a "web serving, > masquerading, firewall". The patches could be relative to RedHat-5.1 or > SUSE-8.3.
Wahoo! NE. Actually I have a _crude_ system to do this already using rdist & scp to manage all of the remote systems I am responsible for. I had toyed with using CVS / XDelta but do not have time yet. I would like to see this happen. (After Oct 20 would be willing to help)
> I personnally would love this feature. The way I work is to hack on the > configuration over a period of days or even weeks. Eventually I get it to > work and I have no idea what I've done. And no easy way to figure it out. > This would solve that problem in a way that would be useful for other > people. I'd like to be able to go search on "web serving masquerading > firewall config patch" and just find the patch I needed for my system.
Yes. Would be way cool.
> RedHat won't do it unless BitSCCS is free, so if I released an older > version that was GPLed, that might solve the problem. > > Thoughts?
Could be extended somewhat along the line of the old Linux Laptop page - people list their "weird" hardware with an appropriate setup patch. I would as far as the DK440LX MB is concerned.
PS - Can BitMover also run a compile ? IE: I have a script that runs configure with the parameters I like on certain software then make/make installs the software. If there is a BitMover patch that sets up the software can BitMover then trigger the make/make install ? I suspect so - I have not yet read through the files (lazy lazy lazy....)
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