>> On Tue 26 Nov 2024 at 01:21:31 (-0500), Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > How do the rest of you deal with all the user-added stuff that vanishes > when you do a fresh install? Are there some tricks I can use, rather > than painstakingly re-installing all my utilities one by one?
I do two things:- 1 - Keep a simple text list of packages I have added to the system using 'apt install' (or aptitude, or synaptic, or whatever). Then when I do a clean install I can simply add all the extra packages, I suppose I could automate it even but I don't bother doing that. 2 - I have a mercurial repository in /etc, it has an ignore file that, by default, ignores every file in /etc. Then, when I modify something, I first do an 'hg add <file>' and then do the change and commit it to the repository. I thus have a history (and diffs) of all the changes I have done in /etc. With a new install I make a backup copy of the old /etc and refer to it to make similar changes to the new system. -- Chris Green ยท
