Re: Configuration management
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> * CVS (the remote protocol) doesn't track file permissions,
> ownership and symbolic links.
In ftp://ftp.pn.com/pub/bb/cvsmapfs you'll find a workaround:
# Purpose:
#
# It would be extremely useful to store an entire UNIX under
# cvs. However, the only thing cvs promises to restore at
# checkout is the contents of files, not owners, groups, modes,
# symlinks, or devices. Cvsmapfs records this extra information
# so you can restore it after a checkout, and then deletes
# non-files and non-dirs so cvs won't choke on them. It
# restores empty directories that cvs 'optimized away'. It
# deals transparently with funny characters in filenames, and
# warns you when they might cause cvs or rcs to misbehave. It
# puts hard links back, even when they aren't in the same
# directory.
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