Re: [ITP] etckeeper 1.18.17-1

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:55:10AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Christian Franke wrote:
>>> ...
>> A possible simple extension which would allow the user to choose between
>> manual or automatic installation+initialization:
>>
>> Provide an optional package, for example "etckeeper-git-init", which depends
>> on etckeeper+git and only contains /etc/postinstall/etckeeper-git-init.sh
>> which triggers new initialization code in
>> /etc/postinstall/zp_zzz_etckeeper-postinstall.sh via some file in
>> /var/cache/etckeeper. This code performs 'etckeeper init && etckeeper
>> commit' if and only if VCS=git is selected and /etc/.git does not exist.
> Honestly, I suspect it's not worth the effort of doing things like that.
> As you say, 99.8% of users who might be interested in using etckeeper
> are going to be people who already have a good idea what they're doing
> and will be able to work it out for themselves.
>
> Thinking about it some more, I'm also mildly concerned about the small
> but non-trivial proportion of users who blithely install every package
> available on Cygwin, which I don't think is going to be an issue for
> more-or-less any other *nix distribution.  I don't normally think it's
> worth doing much to actively catering for those users -- I'm generally
> of the opinion that they're making their own misery -- but in this case
> automatically starting etckeeper would be a potentially significant
> impact, and for the sake of both their lives and yours, I suspect it's
> best to just leave etckeeper as something that requires manual
> initiation.

Good point.


> That said, if you're keen to set up that optional package, I definitely
> don't think it's a bad idea; "it wouldn't be worth the effort to me"
> doesn't mean you shouldn't do it!

  I now decided to leave this for later (or never). The package is new 
and if there are still issues during initialization, the messages should 
be visible on console.