Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > On 01/27/2013 07:42 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Linux-Fan: > >> Dear Debian users, > >> > >> I have configured my system to my specific needs by installing > >> packages, changing their configuration, adding a useful > >> HTML-Documentation collection and installing some programs from > >> source. The resulting system is used on four different machines with > >> two different > >> architectures: amd64 and i386. I have been using "Remastersys" > >> (http://www.remastersys.com/) to build a live-DVD from my system that > >> can be installed on other computers and is really nice for > >> administration purposes: Carry a fully-featured working-environment on > >> a single-layered DVD. > > > > […] > > > >> Recently, when I read about Debian packaging and preseeding on this > >> list, I got another idea: I could package all my customization into > >> some Debian packages and some virtual packages which would then > >> install all software I use as dependencies. This would also make the > >> updating of my i386 machines much easier: If I only changed > >> configuration or such they could just update via aptitude update && > >> aptitude full-upgrade or similar and if I updated some of my > >> self-compiled software, I could (a) use the source-package or (b) > >> download an i386 version that was cross-compiled on my amd64 machine. > >> I would be able to have the most recent configuration and package > >> selection on all three systems while only maintaining a common and > >> customized repository. In order to back up my system I would only > >> need to backup the repository. Live-DVDs could still be created with > >> remastersys but I would no longer depend on them and I could safely > >> do re-installations even changing > >> Debian-releases with minor problems only. I could further divide my > >> custom packages to be able to create a CD version of my system with > >> limited features or such. Adding some of the customization to my > >> friends' systems would also be much easier. > >> > >> Is it a good idea to use the Debian package system for these needs? Or > >> is there something I have overlooked? Are there other systems/programs > >> that probably already automate much of what I am aiming for? (Because > >> I believe creating packages of all my customization will be quite > >> some work and I should therefore think and ask first.) > > > > I also suggest browsing / scanning Debian Reference[1] and other Debian > > books for hints. Especially the package management section. > > > > For gem such as: > > > > - dpkg --get-selections / --set-selections > > I saw this several times when I searched the web for ways of replicating > system-setups to other systems but it seems that there is more behind it > to copy configuration, self-compiled applications and such.
Yes, thats only a starting point. I darkly remember some aptitude search foomagic to get more than these basic package states. > > - ways to store answers to debconf, there are some, you can basically > > make a backup of all debconf settings and restore them AFAIK. > > I will have to deal with that I think: Thanks for the hint! I just do not seem to find it. There is a command call to dig out all answers into a file and also reapply them from that file. > > debian-handbook.info has also some more stuff like Simple-CDD and > > preseeding. > > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en.html > > Thanks for the link as well. Also good to use apt-cache search / aptitude search / debtags search for topics along the line of this, as I do believe that there is something that tries to get a quite close view of the packaging situation in order to reproduce it elsewhere quite easily readily available. At least during some small searches I found a package that might serve as an example for what you have in mind: med-config and other Debian Med metapackages. That does contain configuration and dependencies, no actual software. Debian Junior or Debian Edu might be other sub projects whose packages might serve as an inspiration. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301272018.36485.mar...@lichtvoll.de
