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Tiemo Kieft <blubber@g.o> said: |
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> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:31, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> > what about a special tool, that would be able to grab your system |
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> > configuration, build a profile of it, an dalso be able to apply a profile? |
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> > So that you can install gentoo, with gnome configured as you like it, then ask |
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> > this tool to generate you the profile of the system, so that you are enable to |
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> > share it, or reuse it on other systems? |
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> A very interesting idea... |
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> > The good point of this is that we don't limit the user choice and that we allow |
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> > very easy way to automate the customization (profile file distribution). |
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> > The bad news is that you need a tool to grab the system configuration properly. |
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> > But maybe it's as simple as diffing the changed files compared to the original |
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> > installed one, and file added? |
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> > what do you think? |
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> As I said, I think it's a nice idea. But I'm not sure if this is even |
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> possible to implement. In how much detail do you wan't to clone the |
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> system? Just making aprofile to reinstall the same packages at some |
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> random other machine is quite easy, but taking _all_ settings with it |
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> could be a bit harder. |
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As I said on irc : |
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there is a very simple way to do it : install a vanilla gentoo, then customize |
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it. then launch the tool, which will archive any file that has changed + the |
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ebuild list |
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The profile will retain if the system uses X, fb, which |
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bootloader whith which theme, which windowmanager, which themes... |
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dams |
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