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.
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.
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?
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