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Today I released pyfics-0.01_alpha. pyfics is a python library to communicate to FICS, which hopefully will make it easy to write bots and interfaces with python. It's the initial release and still needs some work. The project page is here.

Although portage takes care of configuration files very well, no system can have enough protection from human errors. Versioning configuration files under /etc is a nice solution to this. If you do a mistake and delete some file or any other silliness that might happen , you just revert to a former revision and solve the problem.

This can be achieved very easily:

1. First create a svn repository

   svnadmin create /root/svn
   

2. Then import /etc to the repository

   svn import /etc file:///root/svn -m 'Initial import'
   

3. Checkout the project

   rm -rf /etc
   svn ci file:///root/svn/etc
           
   

Now change some configuration files and do 'svn status' When you change your configuration files you can commit them to the repository:

cd /etc
svn ci -m 'Changed MAKEOPTS=j2 in /etc/make.conf'