Re: [ITP] etckeeper 1.18.17-1

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

Christian Franke wrote:
> Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> ...
>
>> I'm also vaguely pondering whether it's worth adding git as a
>> dependency.  That's not strictly right, since etckeeper doesn't *need*
>> git, but it's going to be the use case for 99.9% of users, and in the
>> absence of Cygwin having a "recommends" style dependency, just adding
>> git seems like it might be sensible.  But I'm far from convinced there.
>
> I'm also not sure and decided to add no git dependency. 99.8% of the 
> users considering to install etckeeper may already have git installed :-)
>
> The Debian package does not use "rec" but "dep (git or hg or brz or 
> darcs)" which defaults to git.
> If git is installed, the Debian postinst script runs 'etckeeper init 
> && etckeeper commit' on fresh installs. I decided to leave this to the 
> user.
>

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.

-- 
Regards,
Christian