Integrated permissions/ownership reset on file operations for etckeeper/bzr

[Thierry Carrez]

Binary package hint: etckeeper

Since the VCS doesn't handle full permissions/ownership information, etckeeper keeps track of the differences in permissions/ownership in a .etckeeper file.

When the repository is restored to a previous revision (or any other VCS operation that cause a file to be modified), its permissions/ownership properties must be manually synced, since the VCS is not aware of them.

To make etckeeper more user-friendly, it would be nice to integrate the ownership/permissions changes into the file operations. This may be done at the bzr etckeeper plugin level, using a hook that would reset the permissions/ownership for each file by looking into the corresponding .etckeeper state.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

We need some more details about what bzr changes are needed to move this bug along.

[Mark A. Hershberger (hexmode)]

I don't know what is needed, but this just bit me in the butt. Luckily the file was there so I could see *when* the permissions changed, but it would be better if this actually took care of rolling them back, as well.