Description
The etckeeper program is a tool to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, bzr or darcs repository. It hooks into yum to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that version control systems do not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with version control.
The default backend is git, if want to use a another backend please install the appropriate tool (mercurial, darcs or bzr). To use bazaar/breezy as backend, please also install the etckeeper-brz package.
Installation Instructions
Please read the included README, so you understand the security aspects, and how it all works.
For the impatient: Run
etckeeper init
etckeeper vcs status
etckeeper vcs commit -m 'msg'
to get etckeeper started.
Once you do that, the cronjob is in place and it'll do daily autocommits for you. To disable it, set AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=1 in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf.
There's a yum plugin enabled that autocommits before and after each yum transaction. A dnf plugin is also included, in the subpackage etckeeper-dnf.
The yum plugin can be disabled in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/etckeeper.conf.
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
| Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
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Fedora 40
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x86_64 (944)* | Fedora 40 (487 downloads) |
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Fedora 41
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x86_64 (1)* | Fedora 41 (4 downloads) |
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Fedora rawhide
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x86_64 (1)* | Fedora rawhide (13 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.