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Overview
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Sandglass is a tool for versioning of configuration files. It is designed to eliminate problems of existing solutions while keeping their benefits. In addition, it brings some new and useful features like synchronization with remote server and integration with other management and configuration infrastructure tools.

Installing Sandglass
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The tools is currently available only for Fedora with Python 2.7. Which means at least Fedora 14.

For installation, please use provided packages. For installation, use::

   # yum localinstall --nogpgcheck sandglass-0.5.fc14.noarch.rpm

Getting Started
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You can start with :doc:`client-tutorial` and :doc:`server-tutorial`.

License Information
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Tool Sandglass is licensed under GNU General Public License 3.0.