Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:28:07PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > If etckeeper were to check in the unmodified versions of the packaged > conffiles in a branch called 'dpkg-dist' (or whatever) then it would be > trivial to do a diff. > > Presumably it would be possible to do this in one of the hook

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Thomas Koch writes: > I've started by building debian packages with equivs that have dependencies > to > all packages that I've installed by hand on my old machine.[1] This is not > comfortable. https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint might help you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-de

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Philip Hands
Thomas Koch writes: ... > Now I'd like to know which files in /etc are still in their default state and > which were modified by me, including a diff against the default. Is there > some > possibility to get this information? I have etckeeper installed but I don't > see how it could give me th

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Ulrich Dangel
* Thomas Koch wrote [23.06.13 17:56]: > Now I'd like to know which files in /etc are still in their default state and > which were modified by me, including a diff against the default. Is there > some > possibility to get this information? I have etckeeper installed but I don't > see how it co

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Koch (2013-06-23 21:17:50) > Nice to see the first replies coming in. I see that I should have > clarified: > > - I'm thinking about a scenario where I still switch between machines. > So a one time copy of the full hard disc will not do it. > > - The two machines might be differ

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Thomas Koch writes: > I'm currently switching my laptop (again) and I have the following vision: > The Debian system should provide tools to make it possible to switch over > from > one machine to another in a matter of minutes without leaving any data, > configuration or customization of the o

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Koch [2013.06.23.1856 +0200]: > I'm currently switching my laptop (again) and I have the following > vision: The Debian system should provide tools to make it possible > to switch over from one machine to another in a matter of minutes > without leaving any data, configuration o

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Thomas Koch
Nice to see the first replies coming in. I see that I should have clarified: - I'm thinking about a scenario where I still switch between machines. So a one time copy of the full hard disc will not do it. - The two machines might be different: a desktop at home, a laptop and a small netbook. I

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: I'm currently switching my laptop (again) and I have the following vision: > The Debian system should provide tools to make it possible to switch over > from > one machine to another in a matter of minutes without leaving any data, > configurati

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Koch > I've started by building debian packages with equivs that have dependencies > to > all packages that I've installed by hand on my old machine.[1] This is not > comfortable. Use pkgsync with comments in the musthave file? > Now I'd like to know which files in /etc are still i

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 iun 13, 18:56:02, Thomas Koch wrote: > > I've started by building debian packages with equivs that have dependencies > to > all packages that I've installed by hand on my old machine.[1] This is not > comfortable. I started thinking about a tagging system that allows users to > attac