can i version root files as a non-root user in bazaar?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Rahul Nabar wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, John Arbash Meinel
| <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
|> Generally, you can chmod + chown the .bzr directory to be writable and
|> everything underneath it. I think there might be a problem with files that
|> are
|> not readable (we'll try to see what there status is, and die because we
|> can't
|> open them).
|>
|> But I know at least one or two sysadmins that use it.
|
|
| I tried
| bzr add /etc/ntp.conf
| bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/etc/ntp.conf/".
|
| Soft-linking from my ~/ seems to work. BUt this is sort of roundabout.
|

Did you 'bzr init /etc' and then chown -R .group /etc/.bzr , chmod g+w -R
/etc/.bzr ?

John
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