using bazaar as root

Barry Warsaw barry at canonical.com
Sat Dec 20 00:39:03 GMT 2008


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On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> Hi Barry,

Hi Jelmer,

> Applications like etckeeper (which supports bzr) can store the modes  
> and
> owner information in a separate versioned plaintext file with a  
> bunch of
> chmod/chown commands. This seems like a better idea than adding file
> mode/owner support to bzr, since it doesn't have as many portability
> requirements as bzr (it's specific to POSIX machines and to a local
> machine).

Yep, etckeeper is definitely on my list of things to look at.

Thanks,
- -Barry

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