Add a daily cron job to autocommit changes to /etc

The cron job is enabled by default but can be disabled via etckeeper.conf.
(Thanks to Thierry Carrez)

4 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7fb57b4..b357968 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+etckeeper (0.29) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Add a daily cron job to autocommit changes to /etc. Closes: #515100
+    The cron job is enabled by default but can be disabled
+    via etckeeper.conf.
+    (Thanks to Thierry Carrez)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:30:25 -0500
+
 etckeeper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Support darcs. Thanks to Gian Piero Carrubba. Closes: #510032
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5d0b1f1..57d50a7 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Package: etckeeper
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
 Depends: git-core (>= 1:1.5.4) | mercurial | bzr (>= 1.4~) | darcs, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: cron
 Conflicts: bzr (<< 1.4~)
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs
diff --git a/debian/cron.daily b/debian/cron.daily
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce6cb31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/cron.daily
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+. /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf
+if [ "$AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS" != "1" ]; then
+	if /usr/sbin/etckeeper unclean; then
+		/usr/sbin/etckeeper commit "Daily autocommit"
+	fi
+fi
diff --git a/etckeeper.conf b/etckeeper.conf
index 11344e1..afe1c70 100644
--- a/etckeeper.conf
+++ b/etckeeper.conf
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ VCS="git"
 # Options passed to darcs commit when run by etckeeper.
 #DARCS_COMMIT_OPTIONS=""
 
+# Uncomment to avoid etckeeper committing existing changes
+# to /etc automatically once per day.
+#AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=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.