[darcs-users] Symbolic links

Sascha Ziemann ziemann at secunet.de
Fri Feb 18 14:32:54 UTC 2005


Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net> writes:

>> I am looking for a tool that can be used for versioning configuration
>> data ("/etc").
>
> darcs knows about neither ACLs or symlinks. I have been getting around
> this by checking in a filelist with name and acl pairs, then running a
> script to recreate the directory based on the filelist. It is not
> pretty, but it works for now. It would be nice if this was done by
> darcs in a similar manner.

What you describe sounds like a major security problem.  That isn't an
option for us, because we are looking for a versioning tool for
firewall configuration files.

Regards,
Ziemann





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