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When having a look at git yesterday, I stumbled upon etckeeper, a tool to keep /etc in a git (or mercurial) repository and also keeps the metadata (file permissions, …) in the repo making use of metastore.

It hooks into apt but I used /etc/portage/basrc to call it before and after installing a package:

case “$EBUILD_PHASE” in
preinst)
elog “Running etckeeper pre-install…”
/usr/bin/etckeeper pre-install
;;
postinst)
elog “Running etckeeper post-install…”
/usr/bin/etckeeper post-install
;;
esac

One could also modify /etc/etckeeper/post-install.d/50vcs-commit to include the package name etc. in the commit message while emerging:

— a/post-install.d/50vcs-commit
+++ b/post-install.d/50vcs-commit
@@ -2,5 +2,12 @@
set -e

if etckeeper unclean; then
- etckeeper commit “committing changes after $HIGHLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER run”
+ case $LOWLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER in
+ portage)
+ etckeeper commit “committing changes after $HIGHLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER run ($CATEGORY/$P)”
+ ;;
+ *)
+ etckeeper commit “committing changes after $HIGHLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER run”
+ ;;
+ esac
fi

There are probably other/better ways to accomplish this and more…

Anyways… etckeeper looks like a nice and very flexible tool to keep /etc in a repository if one wants to.

Just a little side note…
Tonight at 01:58:31 UTC we passed epoch 1111111111 (the number of seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC).

$ date -u --date="Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 UTC 2005" +%s
1111111111

First of all: Hello Planet Gentoo
Great to see the planet alive now

Two GLSAs have just been released:

• GLSA 200503-15 - X.org: libXpm vulnerability
• GLSA 200503-16 - Ethereal: Multiple vulnerabilities

More are waiting in the queue already of course

Tips for searching Bugzilla for security bugs can be found here by the way.

SecurityFocus published an article by Thierry Carrez (aka koon, operational manager of the Gentoo security team) today about the doubtful rating of the security of a product by the number of published advisory, worth a look