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Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

From John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?
Date 2024-04-21 03:20 +0200
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On 21/04/2024 08:40, Mike Castle wrote:
> One thing Linux-Fan mentioned was `config-package-dev`.  In my OP, I
> commented about ``slightly old to really old tools'', and that was one
> I was thinking of.  It looks like it hasn't been touched in seven
> years, and I wasn't sure if it still worked.  But that drive by
> comments lends some hope.  Using it would help address Alex's concern
> about modifying existing config files.  That debhelper extension is
> designed precisely for that situation.  But, its age is pretty much
> what inspired me to start this thread.

I've been using config-package-dev for some years now - to add some customized configs to existing installed packages - and it still seems to be working perfectly. It's just a wrapper on top of dpkg diverts so there's not all that much to go wrong.

-- 
John

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Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 02:30 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-04-19 03:00 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> - 2024-04-19 08:40 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration          management? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2024-04-19 17:30 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-19 22:50 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-21 02:00 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2024-04-21 03:20 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-21 04:10 +0200
      Re: Current best practices for system configuration          management? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2024-04-24 18:30 +0200
    Mesh VPN on Debian (Was Re: Current best practices for system  configuration management?) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-21 15:40 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-05-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-04-21 11:30 +0200

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