I'm renting a slice (i.e., a VPS) from Slicehost. I've a spent a day or two filling up /usr with my favorite packages, /etc with configs and init scripts, and so on. Now I want to:
- save this whole setup somewhere (e.g., to load onto another machine).
- see what changes I've made to which files
- revert changes, tag revisions, and all that other good version control stuff
Saving a disk image gives me (1), but not (2) and (3).
Using Subversion (svn import / svn://someotherhost) might give me all three, but I expect problems if I actually try to check a project out into / and maintain .svn directories in root-owned areas. And to load my setup onto a fresh slice, I'd need to install an svn client on it first.
Is there a good way to do what I want to do?