Re: In pursuit of 32-bit => 64-bit upgrade path

Lars Damerow wrote:
>>From Les Mikesell <[email protected]>, Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:24:02AM -0500:
>>> And yes, you really do want to make these changes in a configuration
>>> management system, under source control, so that you can avoid getting
>>> into this situation again. Setting up all of that XML will save you a
>>> world of pain in many situations: dead hardware, new OS releases,
>>> educating new employees, and on and on.
>> Version control of files that you change is always a good thing, but  
>> configuration management tools always add some bizarre abstraction  
>> layers of their own that don't seem portable or likely to handle major  
>> changes in the underlaying file structure.
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
> Sorry, I should have been more specific--I meant that your configuration
> management scripts should be under source control.

Yes, but that is still at a level of abstraction that I don't want.  I 
want to be able to make changes arbitrarily on a machine without mapping 
it into some otherwise unrelated scripting language that adds its own 
constraints - and later on be able to see, undo, or reproduce those 
changes.  This is more or less what you would do with source code - I 
just think it would make sense to already have it set up under version 
control by the install.  In fact, I'm surprised someone hasn't wrapped a 
wiki-like editor that exposes version history around the files in /etc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    [email protected]