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How to maintain a pristine copy of your configuration files

etckeeper is a pretty good tool for keeping your /etc under version control, but one thing that it won’t tell you is what the diff between your configuration and a pristine version of your configuration (if you installed the same packages on the system, but didn’t change any configuration). People have wanted this, but I […]

  • January 20, 2014