etckeeper

These states manage the installation and configuration of etckeeper with git as backend.

init

Installs etckeeper and configures it with the file /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf:

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# The VCS to use.
#VCS="hg"
#VCS="git"
VCS="git"
#VCS="darcs"

# Options passed to git commit when run by etckeeper.
GIT_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""

# Options passed to hg commit when run by etckeeper.
HG_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""

# Options passed to bzr commit when run by etckeeper.
BZR_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""

# Options passed to darcs record when run by etckeeper.
DARCS_COMMIT_OPTIONS="-a"

# Uncomment to avoid etckeeper committing existing changes
# to /etc automatically once per day.
#AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=1

# Uncomment the following to avoid special file warning
# (the option is enabled automatically by cronjob regardless).
#AVOID_SPECIAL_FILE_WARNING=1

# Uncomment to avoid etckeeper committing existing changes to 
# /etc before installation. It will cancel the installation,
# so you can commit the changes by hand.
#AVOID_COMMIT_BEFORE_INSTALL=1

# The high-level package manager that's being used.
# (apt, pacman-g2, yum etc)
HIGHLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER=apt

# The low-level package manager that's being used.
# (dpkg, rpm, pacman-g2, etc)
LOWLEVEL_PACKAGE_MANAGER=dpkg

The repository is initialized afterwards.